NEW DELH: A baby declared stillborn by Indian doctors started to move his limbs and cry just before his father was to bury him.

Doctors at a leading hospital in Delhi had told rickshaw driver Rakesh Babbar on Friday that his wife had given birth to a stillborn baby.

“Rakesh had taken the child to the burial ground where they removed bandages from his face for the rites. Then the baby started crying,” the child’s uncle said.

“The family is now very happy.”

He said the family had filed charges against Safdarjung Hospital, which had set up a panel to investigate the lapse.

The uncle said the staff had handed over the child to the father, all wrapped up in clothes and bearing a tag that declared it stillborn.

Bharti Kumar, the mother, was unaware of the drama as she was heavily sedated in the hospital but now is doing well. —AFP