Bizarre: Doctor pulls baby's legs, head comes off during delivery

In a shocking  incident, chaos ensued after  a gynaecologist at a government-run hospital in India yanked off a baby’s head from its head  during the delivery.

According to the report in The Times of India, as the legs emerged first, the doctor tied the infant's limb to a rope and attempted to extract it from the womb. But the delicate body could not bear the wrench, and the birth occurred with the head still stuck in the mother's body. The headless infant was discarded in a bin, and the doctor proceeded to surgically remove the stuck head.

An FIR has reportedly  been registered in the matter against Dr Tayyaba Iqbal and the nurse on duty at the time, identified only by her first name, Madhuri.

Chief medical superintendent Joshna Pant of the hospital told to The Times Of India, "The patient was a 35-year-old resident of Ahmadnagar-Tarana village in central India. She had been admitted on Saturday for delivery of her baby. She went into labour on Sunday evening, and the doctor on duty found it was breech birth - with the legs emerging first. The doctor attempted to deliver the baby by tying its foot with a cord and pulling." The infant's head remained in the womb, the doctor explained.

Pant said as soon as she was informed about  the incident, arrangements were made to surgically remove the baby's head from the woman's body, but she could not explain why the doctor on duty adopted  such kind of a procedure for delivery.

The patient's sister-in-law told The Times Of India, "The doctor and nurse are both absconding now. We were shocked to see her in a pool of blood, the baby headless."

It was later learnt that the doctor and nurse were nabbed. A case under Sections 304 (culpable homicide not amounting to murder) and 315 (act done with intent to prevent child being born alive or to cause it to die after birth) of IPC was then lodged.

SHO Kothwali police station Naresh Pal Singh reportedly said the doctor and nurse would be presented before the court of the chief judicial magistrate, Rampur, on Wednesday.