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Mum 'set fire to both babies for attention and blamed spontaneous combustion'

Medics are refusing to release a baby back to his mother amid fears that she fabricated claims the boy and his brother spontaneously burst into flames.

Mum Rajeshwari Karnan has twice made headlines around the world after her babies allegedly caught fire.

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