Govt Employee in MP buried his new born child in fear of Losing Job

A government school teacher in Madhya Pradesh and his wife buried their three-day-old son alive in a forest in Chhindwara district. They were afraid the father might lose his job under MP’s two-child policy. The baby, who was their fourth child, survived because villagers heard him crying under the stones, rescued him, and took him to a hospital.

The teacher, Bablu Dandolia, 38, and his wife Rajkumari, 28, left the baby in Nandanwadi village on September 26, just three days after he was born. Police arrested them on Tuesday, the same day NCRB data showed that MP had the highest number of infant abandonment cases for the fourth year in a row.

At first, the couple was charged with child abandonment. Later, police added attempt-to-murder charges after a video showed the infant buried under stones. The couple already has three children — two daughters aged 11 and 7, and a son aged 4.

Police said the couple admitted that they had hidden the third child from official records, but they feared losing the job if a fourth child was registered.

Madhya Pradesh’s two-child policy does not allow government employees to have more than two children.