Seven foetuses, contained in plastic bottles wrapped in plastic bags, were found in a garbage heap near a parking lot at Teacher’s Colony, Bandra (East) on Thursday afternoon.
Seven foetuses, contained in plastic bottles wrapped in plastic bags, were found in a garbage heap near a parking lot at Teacher’s Colony, Kherwadi, Bandra (East) on Thursday afternoon. A resident alerted the police control room, and a team was sent to the spot. A police source said it was soon learnt that clean-up agents working for the Brihanmumbai Municipal Corporation [BMC] had mistakenly picked up the foetuses while collecting non-biological waste from the Forensic Sciences Laboratory [FSL] in Kalina.
Dr MV Garad, the FSL director, said that the BMC had given certain agencies contracts to dispose of biological and non-biological waste from the laboratory. “As our biological exhibit room is undergoing renovation, we had kept the plastic bottles containing the foetuses among non-biological exhibits. When the contract labourers came on Thursday to pick up non-biological exhibits for disposal, they took away the foetuses too,” he said.
Garad added that he received a call from Kherwadi police station, telling him about the foetuses found in the garbage heap at Teacher’s Colony. “I immediately went to the police station and explained the mistake. The seven foetuses had been sent to us by the police between 2005 and ’09. They were to undergo DNA analysis for ascertaining identities of parents,” the FSL director said.
“Around 5.30pm, somebody saw the foetuses in the garbage heap, and informed the control room. The control room alerted us, and a team was immediately sent to the spot,” inspector Vaibhavi Harne from Kherwadi police station said. “We found several BMC garbage dumpers nearby, as the area is used to segregate the waste. The labourers too were around.”
Questioning the labourers, the police came to know that the bottles had been collected from the FSL earlier in the day. The FSL director, too, confirmed that the bottles had been mistakenly collected from the lab.
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