As per the Friday clarifications by Brihanmumbai Municipal Corporation (BMC), the baby-swapping allegations leveled against the civic-run Oshiwara Maternity Home hold no ground. Meanwhile, the police plans to take the couple for a DNA test to establish the truth.

The BMC said that the fruit vendor Mohammed Sartaj was falsely accusing the maternity home for swapping his one-day old infant, and added that Sartaj's wife Reshma Bano had delivered a baby girl at 6.10 p. m. on Wednesday, and not a boy, as claimed by Sartaj.

Saying that eleven babies - four girls and seven boys - were born that day, and that the chances of baby-swapping were almost "nil," BMC public health officer Jairaj Thanekar, stated: "The maternity home is not too big and only one operation can be conducted out at a time. The next operation was conducted after four hours. So there is no question of exchange or swapping the child."

However, Sartaj has been asserting that after the delivery of the baby, a ward boy had informed him that he had been blessed with a son, but after some time the doctors told him that the baby was a girl. Sartaj has further said that he was being pressurized by the senior doctors to take the baby girl home, but he would do so only after the impending DNA test.