Abduction of a newborn baby from its mother is like an attempt to commit culpable homicide.
Abduction of a newborn baby from its mother is like an attempt to commit culpable homicide.
Compared with breastfed infants, formula-fed infants face higher risks of infectious morbidity in the first year of life.
Thane sessions court convicted and sentenced a couple and one other person to 5.6 years of rigorous imprisonment for abducting a baby and keeping it away from mother.
The court in Thane, Observing that kidnapping a newborn and keeping the infant away from mother’s milk is akin to “depriving the child of oxygen”, and thereby proves charges of culpable homicide.
In a case of abduction,
Judge G G Bhansali convicted Gudiya Rajbhar (35), Sonu Rajbhar (44) and Vijay Srivastav (52) for abduction and attempt to commit culpable homicide.
The judge concluded that the milk of the mother is oxygen to the newborn child. “..the separation of a newborn baby from its mother is a disconnection of oxygen for a baby,” the judge observed and imposed a sentence equivalent to the period the accused were in jail.
It should be noted for infants, not being breastfed is associated with an increased incidence of infectious morbidity, including otitis media, gastroenteritis, and pneumonia, as well as elevated risks of childhood obesity, type 1 and type 2 diabetes, leukemia, and sudden infant death syndrome (SIDS).
