A 23-year-old woman doctor was molested in the subway of Vashi railway station in Navi Mumbai and a hunt was on for the accused, a police official said on Monday.

The incident took place on Sunday afternoon when the victim was on her way to board a suburban train to Kharghar, he said.

“The 25-year-old man touched her inappropriately and fled from the spot. Based on CCTV footage of the area, a hunt has been launched for the accused,” he said.

A case under section 354 (assault or criminal force to a woman with the intention of outraging her modesty) of the Indian Penal Code has been registered at Vashi railway police station, the official informed.

Soon after miraculously delivering quadruplets, a woman lost all four of her babies in Jammu and Kashmir today. Kalida Begum, who lives near Jammu and Kashmir’s Line of Control, gave birth to four babies at 2.00 am on Monday. However, all four of the babies died within 12 hours.

The woman gave birth to three boys and one girl through a rare normal delivery in government sub-district hospital in Jammu and Kashmir’ Kupwara. The hospital said that quadruplets were premature and were low birth weight babies. According to experts, such babies require immediate special care in the neonatal intensive care unit which is not available at Kupwara sub-district hospital.

Earlier today, three of the four babies died in Kupwara hospital. Soon after that, the surviving baby, a boy, and the mother were shifted to a hospital in Srinagar for special care. Later, the fourth baby also died after being shifted to Srinagar.

The Kupwara sub-district hospital lacks facilities to deal with maternal and neonatal emergency care. Mostly, the patients are referred to Srinagar. There have been several cases of patients dying while travelling long distances due to delay in timely medical care.

The Kupwara sub-district hospital had issued a statement right after the birth of the quadruplets stating that mother and the babies were doing well. “It fortunately was a normal delivery given the rarity of such cases”, Dr Mohammad Shafi, medical superintendent of sub-district hospital, Kupwara had said.

Kalida Begum was first admitted at a medical facility at Keran, a village right on the Line of Control on Sunday evening, said some officials. According to locals, a health worker there referred her to government hospital in Kupwara where she delivered the babies.

Businessman Darshan Hiranandani broke silence on his explosive affidavit today to insist that he has not filed it under pressure — an allegation made by Trinamool Congress MP Mahua Moitra, who is currently battling “cash-for-query” allegations.

In an interview to Times Now, Mr Hiranandani said he spoke up since the cash for query allegations named him “directly and personally”. He also admitted that he has used Mahua Moitra’s parliamentary login ID and password to post questions from Dubai – a situation, if proved, will mean a breach of privilege and lead to her suspension from parliament.

Calling his actions a “crazy error of judgment and deeply regrettable,” he said he has embarrassed himself directly and “my company indirectly” and it was “incumbent on me to come forth”.

“In any allegation we prefer to come forward with the truth and that’s what I have done in this case,” he said, adding that his affidavit has been sent to the Central Bureau of Investigation and the Parliamentary Ethics Committee.  

In response to the affidavit that made headlines last week, Mahua Moitra had alleged that the Prime Minister’s Office “held a proverbial gun” to Mr Hiranandani’s head and made him sign a white paper that was later “leaked to the press”.

“Darshan Hiranandani has not been summoned by the CBI or the Ethics Committee or indeed by any investigative agency yet. Who then has he given this affidavit to,” she had said in a statement posted on X, formerly Twitter.  

Regarding the use of her login and BJP MP Nishikant Dubey’s call for an investigation, Ms Moitra had issued a strident demand.

“Request NIC to please release ALL details of MPs publicly to show they were physically present in place from where IDs were accessed by their PAs & researchers/interns/staff.  Don’t use Fake Degree wala for leak, make this public NOW,”she had posted on X.

“All parliamentary work of MPs done by PAs, assistants, interns, large teams.  Respected @ashwinivaishnaw please release details of location & login details of ALL MPs with CDRs. Please release info on training given to staff to login,” she had added in another post.

Following a complaint to the CBI by  advocate Jai Anand Dehadrai, Mr Dubey has demanded immediate suspension of Ms Moitra, alleging that she “took bribes to ask questions” in parliament from Mr Hiranandani to target the Adani group and PM Modi.

He has written to Lok Sabha Speaker Om Birla, accusing the Trinamool MP of breach of parliamentary privilege, contempt of House and criminal conspiracy. The matter is now with the Ethics Committee.

Ms Moitra has said she welcomes any kind of inquiry. “Multiple breach of privileges pending against fake degreewala & other @BJP4India luminaries. Welcome any motions against me right after Speaker finishes dealing with those,” she posted on X, formerly Twitter.

In his affidavit, Mr Hiranandani had said Ms Moitra thought the only way to attack PM Modi was by attacking Adani Group chief Gautam Adani, and so she “expected support”.

For this, she shared her parliamentary login ID so he could frame the questions. He went along with the idea because he thought through her, he would get support in the Opposition-ruled states, he had said in the affidavit.
 
He had also claimed that Ms Moitra received support from others in this effort, including journalists, Opposition leaders and former Adani Group employees, who fed her unverified information.

In this context, he had named Sucheta Dalal — who has denied the allegations in a post on X — and a few others.