The Bombay Municipal Corporation (BMC) has invited wrath of various social groups for its behavior in the Sion hospital baby kidnap case. Initially BMC said that it would pay 5 lakh compensation to Chembur residents Mohan and Mohini Nerurkar, whose three-day-old baby was kidnapped from the Sion Hospital on January 1. But on Friday, it told the court that it would pay no compensation to the couple at this stage.

Mihir Desai of India Centre for Human Rights and Law said: "The incident shows that the BMC is completely brazen. There is no ambiguity about the fact that the child went missing and that the incident occurred within the hospital premises.''

The BMC also said that it had no intention to suspend the two security officers, who had been held responsible for the incident, till the departmental inquiry was complete.

Health activist Arokya Mary informed that the case highlighted the need for accountability in public hospitals. It's not the first time babies have gone missing. The administrators keep giving excuses, but there is no mechanism to get to the root cause.