Indian national gives birth at Railway Police Station

An Indian woman gave birth inside the toilet of Dhaka Railway Police station in Kamalapur on Monday night.

Police, quoting Ruksana Akhter, 30, said she had come to Bangladesh in the week preceding Eid with her husband Abdul, a Bangladeshi, who worked in India.

According to Ruksana's account relayed by police, on Monday morning, she and her husband took a train to Narayanganj to visit one of his sisters. In the evening, Abdul put her on a Dhaka-bound train to go home but he stayed back in Narayanganj, said Yasin Faruk, Officer-in-Charge of Dhaka Railway Police Station, quoting Ruksana.

By the time the train reached Gendaria, she was in tears and suffering a breakdown. When the train reached Kamalapur, she was taken to the Railway Police Station, OC Faruk said.

Around 11:00pm, Ruksana asked to use the toilet. Soon afterwards, the on-duty officers at the station heard the unmistakable cry of a new-born. They found that it was a boy, said the OC.

“We first sent Ruksana, who can only speak Hindi, to Mugda General Hospital and then shifted her to Dhaka Medical College Hospital,” the OC said.

The newborn is now undergoing treatment in ICU at DMCH and for the time being, officers of the Railway Police Station are looking after his treatment.