New Delhi: A 35-year-old woman, also the wife of then Bharatiya Janata Yuva Morcha’s Delhi president Vasu Rukhar, allegedly abandoned her 40-day-old daughter in Maurice Nagar area of North Delhi earlier this week and later concocted a story of her kidnap, ThePrint has learnt.
According to the police, the woman made a call to the police control room from Jhandewalan, saying that her newborn was kidnapped by two bikers, a claim which was found to be false during investigation.
Police said the woman confessed that she wanted to “get rid of the girl child”, because she was under pressure from her family, a claim her husband has denied.
It was around 4pm on Tuesday that the woman, a resident of Malkaganj, left her home with the newborn and then abandoned her on the roadside. Two UPSC aspirants in the area later spotted the crying infant and called the police control room and the child helpline.
After an hour, at 5.15 pm, the woman, who made a PCR call from Jhandewalan, narrated the story of how two bikers snatched her newborn.
The police registered a case of kidnapping in the matter and closure will be filed in the case.
Meanwhile, according to reports, the woman’s husband was expelled from the party on 10 February.
In a letter, Delhi BJP working president Virendra Sachdeva said Rukhar’s primary membership was terminated and he was expelled from the party.
“In view of your behaviour and activities, you are immediately relieved of your primary membership and immediately expelled from the party,” said the letter.
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Claims not corroborated
According to a police source, when the woman was asked about the sequence of events, she was not coherent in her statement. Moreover, the police did not find any footage in which the woman could be seen in the areas she claimed to have visited.
“When we asked her the spot from where the bikers abducted her daughter, she could not give a clear answer. When we checked CCTV footage of the locations she claimed to have visited, we could not see any footage of her. Also, when we took out her CDR (call data records) to map where all she went, the locations were different from what she said in her statement,” the source said.
Moreover, while the two aspirants called the police at 4.19pm, the mother made a PCR call at 5.15pm – after an hour.
“When we connected the dots, we were wondering why she would wait for an hour to make the call to the police,” the source said. “That is when we thought that she may be concocting the story,” the source added.
Family denies charge
When the police questioned the woman, she confessed to having lied. “She said that she was under pressure from her family to give birth to a baby boy,” the source said.
This girl is the woman’s fourth child. She has two daughters— one aged 12, and the other 6. She gave birth to a son last year but he died when he was 22 days old due to a heart ailment.
“She said when she got pregnant again, she was hoping it would be a son, but when a daughter was born, she was upset. She also said her family was not happy and she decided to get rid of the baby,” the source said.
Her husband, however, denied this claim and said she is “under depression”. “I am unable to understand why she did that. We are educated people. I have two daughters and we are providing them with the best education. She never discussed this with us. No one ever said anything to her in the family. I am shocked at what she did,” he told ThePrint.
“I consulted a doctor and he has told me that she is under depression and it may have to do with the pregnancy or our son’s demise. When I ask her why she did it, she has no answers,” he said.
(Edited by Smriti Sinha)
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