Baby Falak’s elder sister Sanobar was reunited with her family on Monday with the Delhi police declaring Munni as the biological mother of the two-year-old girl battling for her life at AIIMS here.
Sanobar, Munni’s eldest daughter, was traced in Muzaffarpur, Bihar, on Monday and was brought to the city by a team of Delhi police. “Munni is full of remorse and she is crying relentlessly since she saw her daughter. She is now concerned about the safety of her son who is missing,” said DCP (south) Chhaya Sharma. Both mother and daughter have been sent to welfare home Nari Niketan in west Delhi while two police teams are looking for Munni’s eldest son who is still missing. Although Munni had approached the Delhi police for the custody of Falak, she has been told that it will be decided by a child welfare committee.
The family got separated last September when Kanta Chaudhary, Laxmi and Saroj lured Munni to Delhi and got her married to a youth from whom they had taken money.
“During interrogation, Kanta has disclosed that she has arranged such marriages in the past as well. Laxmi appears to have had a central role in separating the children and we are investigating a child trafficking angle in the case,” a senior police official said.
The police detained a 60-year-old woman Pratima and Manoj, 55, on Monday for allegedly receiving Falak from Laxmi and handing her over to taxi driver Rajkumar who in turn handed her over to a 14-year-old girl. Four different teams of Delhi police are searching for Rajkumar in different states.
Meanwhile, Baby Falak may be taken off ventilator in a couple of days if she continues to be stable, doctors attending on her said Tuesday.
“There are no remarkable signs of improvement, but she is stable. If she continues to be stable, we shall take her off the ventilator in a couple of days,” said Dr Deepak Agarwal, a neurosurgeon at AIIMS.

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Court acquits Ajay Katara
Ghaziabad, Feb. 7: Ajay Katara, the prime witness in the Nitish Katara murder case, was on Monday acquitted by a local court in connection with two cases after the police gave him clean chit in its final report.
Katara’s advocate Khalid Khan said one Anjula Yadav had lodged an FIR against Ajay and his two gunners in Indirapuram police station, accusing them of abducting her husband Dharmendra Yadav on October 2, 2008. In another case, one Vivek Bhatnagar lodged a case against Ajay, accusing him of extortion. The police absolved Ajay of all charges in its final report which was agreed by the petitioners. While Anjula refused to give testimony in the court, Bhatnagar said he is satisfied with the report and didn’t want any action against Ajay. — PTI