Dead woman with suckling baby near Damoh rly track identified
Police have identified the woman on whose body her son was trying to breastfeed in Madhya Pradesh’s Damoh district, but are clueless about her death. Ganesh Ahirwar, a resident of Hardol village in neighbouring Sagar district, identified the body as that of his wife Phullo’s, 45, but said he did not know how she ended up beside the railway tracks in Damoh on Wednesday.
He said as earlier, Phullo had left their village on Tuesday in a bus for Garhakota town in Sagar district for treatment of epileptic fits. He, however, claimed ignorance on how she reached Damoh, nearly 25 km away, or why she would have taken a train. Residents found Phullo’s body around 6am, with the toddler sucking his mother’s breasts and nibbling on a biscuit alternately. They informed railway police and some onlookers shot pictures and videos and posted them on social media. The wounds suggest she fell on the back of her head, and the concussion and bleeding killed her, though not immediately.
Police said it had recorded the statements of her family and was waiting for post mortem results to throw some light on how she died. The body, which was kept in Damoh district hospital mortuary, was handed over to Ganesh.
Damoh district child welfare committee, which had taken custody of the child named Devi Singh, handed him over to the family members on Thursday evening in the presence of state finance minister Jayant Malaiya, who gave the family ₹11,000.