Ranchi, Aug. 21: The Rajendra Institute of Medical Sciences (RIMS) is under scrutiny once more, after a eight-day-old baby girl mysteriously disappeared from the hospital, following the discovery of a mutilated body of an infant girl.

Due to the incidents, the hospital administration has now decided to tag all newborn babies for identification. Pooja Singhal, the director (administration) of the hospital insists that the incident was one of female infanticide and not baby theft.

She added that the need of tagging the newborn babies had become necessity now.

Singhal pointed out that they would hold a meeting in this connection soon. ?I am very much sure that the Saturday incident is not a case of baby-theft, however, all new born babies will be tagged right after their birth,? she said.

?We are planning to introduce a plastic card that will be placed around the neck of the baby soon after the delivery. The card will have all the information such as the exact date and time of the birth, the gender, name of both the parents and the weight of the baby,? she said while talking to The Telegraph.

According to the sources, like any other hospital, RIMS too, had a system of tagging the newborn babies till some years back. After a baby was born, a paper-slip containing the gender, time of birth and name of the mother were tied on the wrist of a baby with a string.

Then the habit was stopped abruptly. The RIMS management has so far failed to provide any explanation as to why. As Jagannath Prasad, the acting director of the hospital said: ?Yes, this system was present in our hospital too. But then due to some unspecific reasons it came to a stop.?

Singhal added the plastic card would remain around the child?s neck till he or she is in the hospital. ?We will keep a complete and detailed record of any child. The tags will be with the child as long as he or she is in the hospital and will be checked daily. The whole process will start off from September onwards.?

Meanwhile Rekha Devi and her family are still waiting for their baby girl. The family has accused the police and the RIMS administration of trying to trap Dulari Devi, the mother-in-law of Rekha in order to save their skins.

Dulari said: ?All the allegations levelled against me are totally false. Can I be so merciless as to throw away a child, daughter of my son, from the fourth floor? The police are bent on framing me, ? she said.

Though the officials refused to accept that the collapsible gate of the Karuna Jha Unit, where Rekha has been admitted, was open last night but they admitted that the gates do remain open for admission sometimes.