A baby boy born to a 13-year-old rape survivor died barely 48 hours after his birth at a government hospital in Mumbai, doctors said. The girl, who was allowed by the Supreme Court to terminate her 32-week-old pregnancy on medical grounds, had on Friday delivered the baby after a caesarean section operation at the hospital, a doctor had earlier said. The baby, who weighed 1.8kg, died yesterday at around 10.30am.

The premature infant was kept in the Neonatal Intensive Care Unit of the J J Hospital as most of his organs were underdeveloped, hospital sources said. His condition turned critical yesterday and doctors removed him from an oxygen machine and put him on a ventilator, they said. A medical officer said the hospital could not comment
on the cause of the death as the postmortem report was yet to be finalised.