Baby found in bin in Moradabad is Doon couple’s daughter?

Abandoned child in Rampur

Abandoned child in Rampur

RAMPUR: In a new twist to the case of a “cute” baby girl found abandoned in a garbage bin in Moradabad last week, superintendent of Rampur orphanage Rakesh Saxena said he has received unverified information about her parents. Saxena said he was told by an anonymous caller that the abandoned girl is the daughter of a Dehradun-based couple.

“The anonymous caller rang me up on Monday afternoon and again on Tuesday morning. Later, I got some clues to his identity through Truecaller. He told me that he identified the abandoned baby after watching news reports and knows her father and mother who used to be his good friends. The caller said that the couple used to often fight with each other after the man refused to accept the baby as his daughter,” the orphanage incharge said.

The superintendent has forwarded all details about the anonymous caller to the child welfare committee (CWC), Moradabad. According to the sources, the caller has also provided the numbers of the couple.

According to the orphanage superintendent, the person who had called him up had told him that he is a resident of Haldwani in Nainital and works in Dehradun.

Gulzar Ahmad, president of Moradabad CWC, said, “We have received the information from the orphanage superintendent. We hope her parents will soon be traced with the help of police.”

After seeing pictures of the adorable six-month-old abandoned baby girl, who was found in a garbage bin on Moradabad-Agra highway on Friday morning, hundreds of couples, including some NRIs, had approached police and the CWC with requests for adoption. The abandoned child’s pictures were published in most newspapers and her story was widely circulated on social media.

Meanwhile, the local authorities have sent the baby to the orphanage where she is fondly called ‘Pari’.

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