The father and stepmother
of a 16-year-old girl were arrested here on Monday on charge of negligence
causing the child’s death.
The
parents of Jamia, a Class X student residing at Aluva, had taken the girl to a
hospital here around 6.00 a.m. after the girl fell ill. Hospital authorities
said the child was brought dead. Neighbours of the girl told the police that
her father Ummar, 48, and stepmother Ramla had been mistreating the child, who
was suffering from tuberculosis for a while.
“Preliminary
reports from the postmortem indicate that the child died due to tuberculosis.
But there are indications that the girl had not been fed properly or taken good
care of. We have taken the parents into custody and a case has been registered
under Section 304 A of IPC for causing death by negligence,” said Aluva West
sub-inspector of police T.N. Somarajan.
The
police said Ummar, who runs a building demolition business, had remarried after
his first wife become mentally ill. Jamia had been staying at an orphanage at
Nilambur for studies. She had been brought to her father’s house at Aluva for
treating TB. The police said the child had also undergone treatment for her
illness at a hospital here for more than a week in December.
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