Agartala, Aug. 17 -- A middle-aged man was arrested last night at Agartala Govt Medical College (AGMC) with a lifeless newborn in a plastic carry bag when he was walking out of the hospital campus.
The man has been identified as Nipu Das from Mohanpur on the northern outskirts of Agartala. Police later recovered his wife from a washroom of the hospital in a critical condition; she has now been undergoing treatment in AGMC.
While the woman denies both the delivery and the existence of the baby, Das has pleaded innocence, claiming his wife handed him the infant after delivery. "I realised the baby was dead and kept it in the carry bag until my wife could undergo treatment," Das told police.
According to the hospital authority, Das had brou...