Daijiworld Media Network – Mangalore (SP)

Mangalore, Aug 21: In an interesting twist to the case in which a two-day-old child was allegedly sold by its father to a couple from Kasargod, a local court has issued show cause notice to Panambur sub-inspector of police, Keertikumar. The court has also released Shamir and Badruddin, accused in the case, on bail.

The police version of the case says that Shamir, a resident of T V Centre of Vamanjoor Ashraya Colony, had sold his newborn female child to a couple from Kasargod on June 28 this year. On the basis of a complaint lodged by the mother of the child, Rehamat, with Panambur police station, a case was registered, and the accused were arrested. I

n a press conference held here on August 18, city police commissioner, Seemant Kumar Singh, had announced that a sum of Rs 49,500 had been recovered from the accused. However, when the case came up for hearing before the court on August 19, Rehamat claimed that she had on her own accord, given her baby to Rafiq-Mumtaz couple because of her ill health and poor economic condition. She claimed that she had not filed any complaint with the policemen, and that her signatures were obtained on blank sheets of paper in the presence of women police on August 16.

Advocate, Shukoor, questioned the motive of the policemen in registering the case in Panambur police station, when their over version says that the child was kidnapped from the compound of Kankanady hospital. He also objected to the inordinate delay with which the complaint was filed by the mother of the child. The advocate also presented an agreement reportedly entered into between the two couples for the adoption of the child.

The judge, after hearing the arguments, sought answers to these queries from the Panambur sub-inspector of police, by ordering issuance of a show cause notice to him.