Webdesk: A shocking incident of cruelty has taken place in India, where a 19-year-old woman gave birth to a baby boy inside a moving bus, then the couple proceeded to throw the infant out of the moving bus. Newborn killed after the couple threw him out of the moving vehicle.
The shocking event took place around 6:30AM on the Pathri-Selu Road in Maharashtra, where a passer-by noticed someone being thrown out of the bus and went to check. He found a newborn wrapped in a cloth and quickly called the police using the emergency number.
The woman, Ritika Dhere, was travelling in a sleeper coach bus from the city of Pune to Parbhani with a man, Altaf Sheikh, who said he was her husband.
During their journey, the woman started having labour pains; these contractions were followed by her giving birth to the infant right there on the bus, which was later killed.
The Police are now investigating the case and trying to uncover why the couple killed their baby and what exactly happened.
Newborn killed after being thrown from bus in India
“A woman, identified as Ritika Dhere, was travelling to Parbhani from Pune along with Altaf Shaikh, who claimed to be her husband, in the sleeper coach bus of Sant Prayag Travels. During their journey, the woman, who was pregnant, started experiencing labour pains and gave birth to a baby boy. However, the couple put the baby in a piece of cloth and threw him out of the vehicle,” a police official quoted in the PTI report said, according to Indian media reports.
India:— Woman gives birth to baby in bus. Husband throws the baby out of window. Baby dies. Couple arrested.
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Police say the couple wrapped the baby in cloth and threw him out of the bus window. When the bus driver noticed something had been tossed out, he asked Altaf, who claimed Ritika had vomited due to motion sickness.
Police quickly responded and stopped the bus. Ritika and Altaf were taken into custody. During questioning, they told police they could not afford to raise the child, so they abandoned him.
Sadly, the baby died from injuries after being hit by a car. Authorities are now investigating the case further.
India, while positioning itself as one of the world’s fastest-growing economies, continues to struggle in meeting the basic needs of many of its citizens. This further highlights the divide between “Two Indias”, where the elite enjoy luxuries like ‘Tesla’ but the poor have to kill and abandon their children in the most cruel ways.
Shubhankar Mishra exposed the sad reality of ‘Two Indias’ —
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7 crore earn less than ₹62 everyday
116 crore earn less than ₹171
While top 1% hold 40% wealth 🤯
India is officially the 4th largest GDP with poor people 💔 pic.twitter.com/ufZeM8L4VY
Not just that, it also highlights the deteriorating civic sense, further highlighted by another incident that too place in the US, where an Indian woman stole stuff from Walmart.
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