Click to play videoBangalore: Seven aborted fetuses are lined up at the government Victoria hospital in Bangalore -- five male, two female. They were found in an open dump yard by locals who informed the police.
Says Head of Forensic Medicine Dept, Victoria Hospital, Dr P K Devadas, one of the doctors who performed the post-mortem, "All the foetuses were congenitally defective. Even if they were born, they wouldn't have survived."
It may not have been feoticide, but the fact remains that hospital waste was not disposed off scientifically.
Environment protection rules insist that bio-harzardous waste be separated from others and incinerated by all hospitals.
Pollution control board officials say some 11 tonnes of hospital waste is generated everyday from Bangalore.
Secretary, Karnataka State Pollution Control Board, M D N Simha, says, "This is a stray case. If the police tell us who's responsible, we can take action. We can issue a closure notice or start a criminal prosecution against those accused."
Police investigating the case say the foetuses were found in jars and bottles dumped in a sack in the Sriramapuram area. They were dumped next to a gutter, along a main road, in a densely populated area - enough to spread infections.
Police say it was possibly dumped by some hospital or nursing home in the neighbourhood, which didn't want to pay for the waste treatment facilities.
A day after the foetuses were taken away from near the city railway station in the heart of Bangalore, CNN-IBN found some more disturbing material -- gloves, syringes, and other waste that shouldn't be here in the first place.
The discovery has exposed many faults in our waste disposal administration.
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