BHOPAL: Brijmohan, the husband of the 27-year-old woman who allegedly killed her twin 16-day-old sons, is still in a state of shock.
He cannot believe that his wife could have committed the act.
Even the family and the neighbours are unable to process the fact that somebody could kill her own new-born babies.
Talking to TOI Brijmohan alias Birju said, “I have stopped stepping out of home after the incident came to light. Everybody stares at me as if I have done something wrong. My life has become a mess."
"My three-year-old daughter Arohi constantly asks me where her mother is. How should I answer her? If Sapna wanted to leave me, she could have but why did she kill the babies?” Brijmohan says.
“My wife Sapna delivered my twin sons on September 7. She was admitted at the hospital for 12 days as she underwent a caesarean operation and the babies were kept in SNCU as they were weak. Sapna was discharged from the hospital merely four days before the incident,” he said.
He added, he had been suffering from fever since September 21 and was sleeping in the other room when she left home with the babies around 4.30am.
“My mother, Prem Bai, was sleeping in the room with Sapna and the babies while my three-year-old daughter was at my elder brother’s home. My mother woke up Sapna around 4am to feed the babies and then she went to sleep. Sapna went out after feeding the babies to take a walk alone. She returned within 10 minutes and then stepped out with the babies without even informing my mother,” Brijmohan said.
“Around 6am when my mother woke up and spotted that Sapna, along with the babies, was missing, she called me and said that Sapna and the babies were not in the room. I called Sapna but she did not answer. I redialled and she answered the call only to say that she was going to her parents’ home in Berasia. I called an auto-rickshaw driver and he said that he would take 15 minutes to reach my house. Meanwhile, I called my sister-in-law and informed her that Sapna left home with the babies. My sister-in-law called Sapna and counselled her to return but she disconnected the call. By 6.45am, I reached near Iqbal Maidan by the auto-rickshaw. I was going to the bus stand to bring back Sapna but around 7am, she called my sister-in-law and informed her that the babies had gone missing. She said that she left the babies on the footpath and went to attend nature’s call and when she returned the babies were missing. I immediately reached Rang Mahal Square and searched for the babies but when we couldn’t find them, we approached TT Nagar police to lodge a complaint.”
Brijmohan said that when police started investigations and scanned the CCTV camera footage, Sapna was seen reaching the spot alone by a bus contradictory to her statements that she reached the spot on foot along with babies.
When police started recording her statements, she started posing as if her body was possessed by an evil spirit.
Brijmohan denied that Sapna had any psychological problem in the past.
She was fine. “There was nothing wrong between our married life. I took proper care of her during the pregnancy period and everything was normal between us. I simply could not understand why she did this. After the incident she started blaming me for the incident and I am surprised about it,” he said.
Sapna’s sister-in-law said that she was happy in the family and nobody could imagine in their wild dreams that she could kill the babies.
“Birju Bhaiya ran a loading auto-rickshaw earlier and their financial condition was good but during the lockdown their condition worsened and he had to sell his auto-rickshaw. But still, he works as a driver and earns the family expenses. It is false that the family members taunted Sapna due to which she committed the incident,” she said.
A neighbour Manoj Malviya said that Sapna was a normal housewife. Although she never interacted with the neighbours much, her behaviour was normal.
All the neighbours searched for the babies for three days in every nook and corner with police when the incident came to light but nobody suspected that she could have killed the babies.
There was an eerie silence in the locality when the TOI team visited the spot.
The neighbours were discussing the same case beside a Nav Durga tableau.
The family conducted a ritual after the babies’ death on Thursday.
The TOI team faced no problem in locating the house of the woman in the dense shanties.
Nobody knows their house by the house number. But, as soon as we asked the neighbours about the house of the woman, who killed her babies, they guided us to the house in a narrow lane.
