Thiruvananthapuram: Was it the fear of disclosing the fact about her ‘early pregnancy failure’ to her husband and family that made the 21-year-old woman run away from her family? This is what the police suspect as the woman was traced at Karunagappally after she mysteriously disappeared from
SAT Hospital for Woman and Children here on Tuesday afternoon.
The woman was traced at Karunagappally on Thursday afternoon around 3.45pm. It was the taxi drivers there, who identified her from the images circulated by the police through various media. They alerted the police following which a team from Medical College police went there and secured her custody.
Medical College inspector C Binukumar, who is investigating the case, said that as per what she told to the woman cops accompanying her, she had become pregnant nine months ago. Her routine medical check-ups were conducted at Kadakkal Government Hospital. But she lost the baby due to early
pregnancy failure.
“She refrained from disclosing the matter to her husband and family. Instead, she told them that she had shifted the routine medical check up to SAT Hospital,” the inspector said.
She even visited SAT Hospital thrice and each time her husband Anshad had accompanied her. But every time she would ask him to wait outside the OP block and enter alone. She would have her blood samples tested for the sake of convincing her husband, who apparently was unaware of the procedures.
“In December last year, she learned that she had become pregnant again. But, the foetus was only nine weeks old and stopped growing,” Binukumar said. Again she kept it a secret.
The woman travelled as far as Vellore after running away. She travelled in train and reached Chengannur on Thursday morning. From there, she took a bus to Karunagappally.