3-Month-Old Baby Keeps Catching Fire On Its Own

In a rare medical condition, a three-month old baby boy from the southern Indian state of Tamil Nadu keeps catching fire spontaneously. The bizarre incident has stunned local doctors, and spooked the villagers who blame paranormal forces for the phenomenon, local media report said.

Rahul, second son of farmhands Karnan and Rajeshwari from Villupuram village, seemed as healthy and normal as any other baby at birth. But since then, the baby reportedly burst into flames at least four times, beginning when he was just nine days old.

In the latest incident, the baby suffered extensive burns and is being treated at Kilpauk Medical College hospital in Chennai, the state’s capital. According to Rahul's parents, each time the child caught fire spontaneously and there was no source of fire in the vicinity. Read more.........3-Month-Old Indian Infant Keeps Catching Fire

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'Dead infant' comes to life at cremation ground

Sirsa: In a bizarre incident, a 45-day-old infant declared "dead" by a doctor started breathing, a few seconds before its burial at a cremation ground here today.
"The baby boy was immediately rushed to a hospital where he is breathing normally and is being given intravenous drips," his father Vinod Kumar told reporters. Read More................''Dead'' infant ''comes to life'' at cremation ground

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Bizarre ritual of lowering the infants into a 50-feet deep well

Sangli (Maharashtra): Authorities have launched an awareness campaign in Maharashtra's Sangli district to rid the locals of practising bizarre superstitious rituals.

Buzz up!Villagers in Sangli follow a ritual of lowering the infants into a 50-feet deep well with a belief it would help in increasing the life of the kids.

This ritual is very old and the villagers observe it every year on the occasion of 'Gudi Padwa' or the Hindu New Year. Read More................Maharashtra villagers sensitized against bizarre superstitious rituals

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Poverty drives mum to sell infant for Rs 500

BHUBANESWAR/KORAPUT: Close on the heels of the death of five members of a poor tribal family within two months in Khaprakhol block of Bolangir district, an alleged case of child sale in Dhenkanal and suicide of a woman in Rayagada have come as a rude shock for the Naveen Patnaik government. Read More................Poverty drives mum to sell infant for Rs 500

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Infant charged with 'breach of peace' by police

Patna : A court in Bihar's Muzzaffarpur district has served a show cause notice to a police official who filed a chargesheet against an 18-month-old boy for allegedly insulting someone with the intention of breaching peace. Read More.............Infant charged with 'breach of peace' by police in Bihar

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3-year-old sold for Rs 50

REWARI: In an ironic twist to Haryana's love for the male child, a poor woman in Rewari district has allegedly sold her three-year-old son for Rs 50. Kanta Devi, a housemaid, sold her son to a family in Gurgaon. Read more.......................................3-year-old sold for Rs 50

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Infant branded with Incense Sticks

AHMEDABAD (Gujarat): In a shocking case of superstition, a 14-day-old ailing infant was branded with incense sticks on the chest in the superstitious belief that the infection would go away by the burns.

The incident happened in Gedi village near Rapar in Kutch and the baby boy would have died if the parents hadn't dumped the witch-doctor just in the nick of time. Read more...............................Infant branded with incense sticks

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Year-old 'Sacrificed'

The spectre of human sacrifice has struck panic in a Malda village in West Bengal state of India after a year-old girl's severed head was found in a field on Thursday morning. Police suspect the baby's father, who apparently blamed her for a string of misfortunes and had sought a tantrik's help. Read more.....................Year-old 'sacrificed' in Malda village

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Drunk man kills infant son

In a gruesome incident, a father allegedly killed his 15-month-old son under the influence of liquor in Dabri in southwest Delhi late on Wednesday night. The police have arrested the father of the boy and registered a case of murder. Read more.................................................Drunk man kills infant son, held

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2 Year old Kid wanted for rioting

In a bizarre case a two-year-old boy in Bihar state of India has been charged with rioting and even firing at police. He faces arrest and has been asked to surrender by the police.

Toddler Ramu Jha (name changed), of village Nababganj under Manihari police station in Katihar district, may not be able to stand without holding his parents’ hands, but he is charged with firing at the police at Nababganj and there’s an arrest warrant out for him.

APolice in Manihari lodged an FIR vide no 10/07 on January 30 against a dozen people, including the infant, charging them with attempted murder and rioting after a clash between two groups during a Muharram procession. Police had to fire bullets to break up the mobs but no one was injured, sources said. Fearing police reprisal and arrest of their son, the parents are said to have fled from the village and are on the run.

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