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https://www.straitstimes.com/asia/south-asia/murder-hunt-as-fake-doctors-sever-indian-babys-genitals
Murder hunt as fake doctors sever Indian baby's genitals
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Apr 27, 2018, 6:03 pm SGT
NEW DELHI (AFP) - Indian police are hunting two men posing as doctors who killed a newborn by severing his genitals in a bid to convince the mother she had given birth to a girl, officials said on Friday (April 27).
The pair said the eight-month pregnant woman would have a girl after staging a sham ultrasound at an illegal clinic in the Chatra district of eastern Jharkhand state, according to Chatra's top medical officer.
They said urgent surgery was needed to deliver the baby, Satinder Prasad Singh added.
But on seeing the child was a boy when he was born on Tuesday (April 24), the two cut off the genitals to pass him off as a girl with a deformity, Mr Singh told AFP.
The baby died almost immediately through blood loss, according to an autopsy.
