Mom abandons baby, taken to court

A curse seems to have struck a four- month old girl, suffering from a serious disease and abandoned by her mother, with her father running from pillar to post to make his estranged wife breast- feed her medicines.

According to the doctor, the medicines have to be administered to the baby, suffering from Erb's Palsy, only through the mother's milk and not orally.

Erb's palsy is paralysis of the arm caused by injury to its main nerves during a difficult delivery.

While the girl, who was allegedly abandoned by her mother when she was two months old, is battling with the disease, her father's efforts to get back the mother has not yielded any result and an ugly court fight has started between the couple.

Strange as it may seem, the husband, who claimed to be unaware of his estranged wife's whereabouts, moved the Delhi high court with a habeas corpus petition to trace his missing spouse.

When the woman appeared in the high court, she refused to join him or take the child's custody for three months to administer her medicines.

She told the court that she was allergic to the medicines which needed to be given to child through breast milk and that she cannot consume them.

The court recorded her statement and disposed of the matter, bringing the situation to square one.

Upset over the outcome, the husband, a lawyer by profession, has now knocked the doors of the trial court for penal action against his wife for abandoning the child.