Bengaluru: Newborn found dead in traffic police station compound

| Apr 1, 2019, 06:31 IST
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BENGALURU: A newborn was found dead in Jalahalli traffic police station compound recently. Law-and-order police are making efforts to trace the miscreants responsible for the incident.

Jalahalli police said the girl's body was found when Salma, a sweeper, was cleaning the compound on the morning of March 25. Traffic police informed Jalahalli law-and-order police about the incident.


"Rats had nibbled away at the baby's legs. We performed her last rites in Jalahalli burial ground after postmortem," a police officer said.


Police suspect the miscreants threw the baby over a four-foot-high compound wall on the night of March 24 and fled the scene. "We are not sure why they threw the baby inside the police station compound. Efforts are on to trace the culprits," they said.


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