JAIPUR: In yet another instance of discrimination against girl child, a one day-old child was found abandoned in a polythene bag near a sewerage line in Chittorgarh on Monday. A woman, who had sneaked out of a nearby women's hospital after giving birth to a baby girl on Sunday without getting her discharge ticket is the prime suspect, said police sources.
According to the police, some passersby heard cries of a child near a sewerage line at Shashtri Nagar on Monday. "When they followed the cries, they spotted a girl in a polythene bag lying on a food cart near a sewerage line," said circle inspector Bojar Singh Bhati. He added that the girl's head was outside the bag. She seemed to be a day-old.
"When informed, a police team rushed the girl to the Government Women's Hospital in Chittorgarh. Doctors said that the girl was suffering from fever. She is currently undergoing treatment," the officer said.
Police have lodged an FIR against the unidentified woman. "A woman named Veena had given birth to a baby girl on Sunday evening. She had left the hospital without getting a discharge ticket. The hospital staff says that the woman, who belongs to a nearby village, had given birth to this child," said the officer. However, she is yet to be traced.
Several incidents of female feticide and infanticide have been reported in the state in the past even as the state government is preparing a special 'girls policy' for saving girl child.
The Rajasthan High Court had summoned Jaipur commissioner of police BL Soni in March after recovery of the bodies of four fetuses from the posh colonies in Jaipur.
The police commissioner had told the court that an investigation has been launched in the cases related to recovery of the infant girls' bodies. He also told the court that FIRs will be registered under Section 302 of Indian Penal Code for homicide.
However, investigations into all these cases have hit a roadblock. "With the help of medical and health department officials, we had seized documents from some private hospitals situated near the places where fetuses were found. Probe is still on as we have not been able to identify those who had abandoned these fetuses," said the officer.
May 20 : Eight-month old girl found wrapped in a cloth near a reservation window of the Rajasthan Roadways bus stand in Bundi.
May 9 : Infant girl found at the doorstep of a children's home in Udaipur
April 30 : A newborn girl was found abandoned at a burial ground in Pali district
April 19: The fetus of a girl was found on the edge of a sewer line in Dausa town.
March 31 : Fetus found in a dustbin in Jaipur's Jalupura area
March 29 : Two new born girls found abandoned in Shashtri Nagar and Vidhyadhar Nagar in Jaipur.
March 28 : Fetus found in Sindhi Camp bus stand in Jaipur
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