Lankan tsunami baby wins back parents, name

File photo taken on February 2 shows Sri Lankan man Murugupillai Jeyarajah (R) and his wife Junitha Jeyarajah (L) holding a baby, a survivor of the December 26 tsunamis, who they claim is their son after they entered by force into the hospital in Sri Lanka's eastern town of Kalmunai. PHOTO: AFP

The plight of the infant, so-nicknamed because he was the 81st person taken to Kalmunai hospital on Sri Lanka's east coast after the island's worst natural disaster, caused a media storm after grieving families flocked to offer to care for him.

But his parents, Murugupillai Jeyarajah and his wife Jenita -- who have already waited an agonizing two months to regain custody of baby Abilash -- will have to wait another two days for the courts to complete legal formalities.

"The parents have been ordered to come to court on Wednesday, when the baby will be given. They have to wait only two more days," said M.S.M Nazeer, Kalmunai court registrar.