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Bihar’s conjoined twins won’t be separated

April 10, 2013
Seventeen-year-old conjoined twins Saba and Farah welcomed the Supreme Court ruling Wednesday that did away with the option of a surgery to separate them and directed the state government to grant the family Rs.5 000 per …

Bihar’s Conjoined Twins: Mother doesn’t want them separated

August 22, 2012
Rabiya Khatoon, the mother of conjoined twins Saba and Farah  has written a letter to the Supreme Court bench asking them not to separate her daughters. The letter to Justices K S Radhakrishnan and Dipak Misra, the twin's …

Bihar’s conjoined twins: Family undecided on surgery

July 31, 2012
 The family of 16-year-old conjoined twins in Bihar will take the final decision on surgically separating them after the girls are examined at the All India Institute of Medical Sciences (AIIMS) in New Delhi. "We'll take the …

Bihar’s conjoined twins: SC asks Bihar Govt to bring them to Delhi

July 31, 2012
 The SC asked the Bihar government to make arrangements for bringing teenage conjoined twins Saba and Farah to Delhi by an air ambulance for treatment at the All India Institute of Medical Sciences. The court also asked the …

Bihar’s Conjoined twins: Centre sets up panel to figure out if they can be separated

July 21, 2012
The union government told the Supreme Court that it has set up a panel of three doctors to examine the possibility of surgically separating the conjoined twin sisters from Bihar. The apex court bench of Justice K.S. …

Can Bihar’s conjoined twins be separated? SC asks health ministry

July 17, 2012
The Supreme Court directed the union health ministry to set up a panel of doctors to examine the possibility of surgically separating 16-year-old conjoined sisters from Bihar. The apex court bench of Justice K.S. Radhakrishnan …