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Faisal Tandel

The Central police, Ulhasnagar,

has registered a case against afamily in Kandivli for forcingtheir daughter-in-law to aborther baby. The woman had reg-istered a complaint onNovember 2 against her in-laws.

Divya Nitesh Parmar (21)from Namdev Apartment inUlhasnagar married Kandivli

resident Nitesh Parmar onFebruary 12, 2012. Her in-lawsbegan torturing Divya for

dowry. Divya was pregnantand they were forcing her toabort the baby.

On July 11, her in-laws tookher to a clinic and managed toabort the baby, a girl. Divyathen registered a case againsther in-laws.

A senior police officerfrom Central line police sta-

tion says, The girl has regis-tered a case against her in-laws under sections 498A

and B, 313 ( Causing miscar-riage without womans con-sent.), 323 (Punishment forvoluntarily causing hurt), 506(Punishment for criminal in-timidation.)and 34 (Actsdone by several persons infurtherance of common in-tention) of the IndianPenal Code.

Woman forced to abort

Faisal Tandel

A woman tried to commitsuicide on November 7 by

jumping into Kasheli creek inThane (W) with her two chil-dren. However, the beatmarshals and sand minersintervened in time to save thewoman Pushpa ParshuramMhatre (32), and the childrenChandani Mhatre (11) andVaishali Mhatre. They areresidents of Kapurbawadi.The mother is alleged to bementally unstable. BRChaudari, senior police in-spector, Kapurba-wadi policestation, said, She took such adrastic step because of apetty fight with her husband.All three are being treated inthe Thane civil hospital. Herhusband claimed that earliershe had tried ending her lifea couple of times.

Suicideattemptfoiled

Bhalchandra Chorghade

Thane police commissioner-ates eight-lane athletics trackproject behind Central Jail inSaket area has run into a politi-cal controversy.

Senior BJP leader and Thanedeputy mayor Milind Patankarhas raised objections stating

that police authorities haveflouted norms by choppingdown mangroves for construc-tion work.

Developing sports infra-structure is a good move.However, cutting mangroves isviolation of coastal regulationzone (CRZ) norms, Patankar

said. Patankar has written a let-ter to the police commissioner,chief conservator of the forestand the tehsildar in this regard.

However, police officialshave denied the allegations.The construction work startedonly after getting clearances.We are not violating any

norms, Milind Bharambe, ad-ditional commissioner of po-lice (crime), said. He added thisan attempt to tarnish the po-lice departments image.

Besides track-and-field fa-cilities, there will be two bas-ketball courts, two volleyballcourts, two kabaddi courts andalso provision for kho-kho,

football, judo and wrestling.The facility is being developedwith help of public works de-partment at an estimated costof Rs1.5crore. The Thane policecommissionerate will be host-ing the state police games. Thismeet will be held in secondweek of January.

Sports complex in trouble

Deepa Sarna Gawli

A one-and-a-half-month-oldbaby boy, who was diagnosedwith complex heart defects,was saved due to the efforts ofthe staff of a Mulund hospital.Had they not raised funds for

his treatment in time, it wouldhave been difficult to save thebaby.

The baby Rajbeer SinghSidhu was born on September25. He was suffering frompneumonia and was hospital-ised. Since the baby was notresponding to the treatment,his parents shifted him to an-other hospital in Mulund onOctober 17. Doctors at this hos-pital diagnosed him with aheart defect.

His echocardiogramshowed he had a complexheart defect called TotalAnomalous PulmonaryVenous Connection to PortalVein with additional complica-tions of severe pulmonary hy-pertension and reduced heartfunction. This condition re-

quires urgent surgery, ex-plained Dr Vijay Agarwal, pae-diatric cardiac surgeon.However, the surgery involveda cost of about Rs3.5 lakh,which was impossible for thebabys parents to arrange.

Rajbeers father Shravan issuffering from a liver ailment.So, he has been jobless for thelast one-and-a-half years. Thebabys grandmother, the onlyearning member in the family,earns Rs2500 a month.

When doctors informed

me that the surgery would costaround Rs3.5 lakh, I wasshocked. Before Fortis hospi-tal, Mulund, my son was ad-mitted in a private hospital. Iwas arranging for the dis-charge documents from theprivate hospital, when I got acall from a Fortis doctor whoinformed me that funds for thebabys surgery had been ar-ranged. He asked me to admitthe baby and said the hospitalstaff would do the rest, saidShravan.

The baby was admitted inthe paediatric cardiac inten-sive care unit. He underwenta corrective open heart bypasssurgery the next day. The op-eration lasted for 6 hours. Hewas discharged 10 days later,said Dr Swati Garekar, paedi-atric cardiologist who alongwith Dr Vijay performed thesurgery.

We are very grateful to the

hospital staff who managedthe funds. Even if I had triedmy best, I would not have beenable to arrange for such a bigamount. To me, the doctorswere like God because theysaved my sons life, saidShravan who lives with hiswife, mother and elder son ata slum near Amar Nagar inMulund.

Doctors say timely treat-ment is vital to most heart de-fects. Heart defects are themost common type of con-genital defects in a newborn.

Hospital staffs efforts save baby