IN THE MINISTER'S CONSTITUENCY!

Mom sells newborn to pay bills

Hyderabad, PTI:
She delivered the baby by Caesarean section last week and Ishwar, an auto-driver, bought the baby for Rs 6,500 on Monday at the hospital, police said.

A young poverty-stricken single mother allegedly sold her newborn son for Rs 6,500 to a childless couple so that she could pay the medical bill in a government hospital in Andhra Pradesh but the two were reunited within 24 hours and two persons arrested.

“My financial position is really bad,” a distraught-looking Rajitha, 20, who could not afford the Rs 2,000 hospital fee, said from her bed at the government area hospital at Kothagudem in Khammam district.

She delivered the baby by Caesarean section last week and Ishwar, an auto-driver, bought the baby for Rs 6,500 on Monday at the hospital, police said.

Both Ishwar and Sunitha, who played a mediator in the ‘sale’ of the baby have been arrested, police said.
They also said they would take action against the hospital which also faces an inquiry whether its doctors took any money as bribe from the woman. The incident occurred in the parliamentary constituency of Union minister of State for Women and Child Development Renuka Chowdhury.

“At least, she is safe and the child is neither dead and nor killed. I think they are the most important things that we need to look at,” the minister said.http://www.deccanherald.com/Content/Feb252009/scroll20090225120592.asp?section=updatenews
======================================================================The Minster who was in the forefront of the Chaddy Campaign is showing extreme flippancy in her comment on the matter. One can only be happy that such a shallow person did not call for a Chaddy Campaign against the Auto driver that bought the baby.