Thirty-year-old Sundari delivered a baby girl on April 19 at the Government Hospital in Erode. Within a few hours of her delivery, the doctors at the GH claimed that the baby had gone missing from the hospital. A complaint has also been filed with the Erode police regarding the incident. Meanwhile, about a week later Sundari and her husband Ramaswamy spotted a child that resembled their newborn at the same hospital. “When we enquired, we got to know that the child belonged to Papa (35). They claimed that Papa had also delivered at the same hospital and that it was their baby,” Sundari’s relatives said. After the doctors failed to solve the confusion among the mothers over custody of the girl child, they referred both the parents to the government forensic lab at Dr Radhakrishnan Salai here for DNA tests.
Blood samples of all five of them – Papa and her husband, Sundari and her husband Ramaswamy, and the newborn – have been taken.
According to the officials at the lab, the results would be out in three days. Both the mothers will have to wait for three more days to find out if the baby is theirs. A few weeks ago, two mothers from North Chennai underwent DNA tests.