Psychiatrist gets 10 yrs in jail for kidnap, sale of newborn
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Bengaluru: A city court recently held a 36-year-old psychiatrist guilty of stealing a newborn boy and selling him for Rs 14.5 lakh in 2020 and sentenced her to 10 years of rigorous imprisonment.
Judge CB Santosh also fined convict Rashmi Shashikumar, a resident of Nagarbhavi, Rs 1 lakh.
Rashmi, who was out on bail and was present in the court when the orders were passed on Feb 19, was taken into custody and sent to Bengaluru Central prison.
The case dates back to May 2020 when a new mother realised that her newborn boy was stolen from BBMP Hospital in Chamarajpet. A complaint was lodged with Chamrajpet police. However, it took a full year for police to crack the case and arrest the accused, Rashmi.
The infant was stolen on May 29, 2020, the day he was born. Police recovered the child on May 29, 2021. The infant was sold to a north Karnataka couple, claiming it was a surrogacy baby. When police knocked on the couple’s door, they were happily celebrating the infant’s first birthday…
Excerpted from:Psychiatrist gets 10 yrs in jail for kidnap, sale of newborn
By Rajiv Kalkod
The Times of India
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