Parents desert woman who tried to steal baby

DEHRADUN: The elderly parents of Neelima Nautiyal, who was arrested from Base Hospital in Delhi on Tuesday for allegedly trying to steal a baby from the maternity ward, have said they don't want to have anything to do with their daughter.
Neelima's father, 70-year-old Captain (retd) J P Nautiyal of Punjab Regiment, speaking to ToI from his Anand Vihar residence, said he had returned from Delhi on Wednesday morning after posting bail for his daughter.���I did not bring her back home with me. I told her never to show me her face again,��� the distraught father said.
A tearful Captain Nautiyal said he had gone to Delhi as Neelima, his elder daughter, had asked him to come and pick her up from there when she arrived from Kolkata.
���She told us that she was pregnant and was due to deliver. She said she had to go for a check-up at the Base Hospital,��� Nautiyal said.
Nautiyal added that his daughter must have been in a very disturbed frame of mind to claim to be pregnant when she was not in the first place. He blamed her in-laws for putting pressure on her to bear a child a little over a year after her marriage.
���I had asked her to put up somewhere in the cantonement area as I am not familiar with other places in Delhi,��� the retired armyman said.
Neelima's father said he did not bring her back home as her mother was not well and would not have been able to cope with the trauma of seeing her daughter in her present state. It was evident from the way the Nautiyals spoke that they were not in touch with Neelima's husband Sudipto Mukherjee.
���Sudipto was probably going to Singapore. I do not know here he is or where Neelima is now,��� he said.
Captain Nautiyal also blamed the lax security at the Base Hospital which allowed Neelima to enter the maternity ward in the first place. Neelima used to teach at the Rashtriya Indian Military College (RIMC) in Dehradun before she married and moved to Kolkata. Neelima and her husband had met online.