Pune: Two-month-old girl deserted at Sassoon hospital

17 November 2019

PUNE: The Bund Garden police (https://timesofindia.indiatimes.com/topic/Bund-Garden-police) on Friday booked the parents of

a two-month-old baby girl for abandoning her beneath the water tank on the premises of the Sassoon General Hospital.

Sub-inspector R A Godse (https://timesofindia.indiatimes.com/topic/Sub-inspector-R-A-Godse) of the Bund Garden police said,

“Some visitors and security guards spotted a baby girl lying beneath the water tank of the hospital on November 4. They

alerted the police soon after. We waited for a few days, thinking that her parents would visit the hospital in search of her. We

decided to book the unidentified parents when no one came forward.”

Godse said nobody at the hospital saw anyone abandoning the baby beneath the water tank. He said the baby was healthy

and had been admitted to the Sassoon hospital (https://timesofindia.indiatimes.com/topic/Sassoon-hospital). Godse said the

police had no lead so far on the identity of the baby’s parents and under what circumstances was she deserted.

He said the police were checking the CCTV footage of various spots near the hospital. “We suspect whoever abandoned the

baby might have done it either because of the infant’s gender or having been born out of an illicit relationship,” he added.

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