Newborn girl found abandoned in Pinjore

Panchkula, August 19

A newborn girl was found abandoned along a road near Rathpur Colony of Pinjore on the intervening night of Tuesday and Wednesday.

The baby was spotted by a passerby who alerted the police. She was taken to the Civil Hospital in Sector 6.

The girl is on oxygen support at the special newborn care unit of the hospital.

The complainant, Harpal Singh, a resident of Ganga Colony, Kalka, who works a labourer, was on his way to meet his friend when he spotted the girl. According to the complainant, “While riding on the road near Rathpur Colony alongside the railway line, we heard cries of a child. When we stopped to check, we found a newborn girl in the shrubs between the road and the railway line. There was nobody around.”

The police have booked unknown person(s) under Section 317 (the father or mother of a child under the age of 12 years, or having the care of such child, shall expose or leave such child in any place with the intention of wholly abandoning such child) of the Indian Penal Code. TNS