LUCKNOW: A baby boy, with the umbilical cord still attached, floated up dead in a pond near Dubagga Chowki in Kakori early on Saturday. Local residents informed police on Dial 100 after which a team fished out the body and sent it for postmortem.
Kakori station house officer Pramod Kumar Mishra said it was not immediately clear if the baby died after being thrown into the pond or before that. Mishra , however, did not rule out the possibility of an unwed mother or her relative drowning the newborn.
"The baby was abandoned in the night. The umbilical cord was found attached, which means the baby was thrown into the water just hours after birth. The condition of the body suggests the baby boy was in water for 10-12 hours," the officer said, adding that decomposition had started and identification would be very difficult now.
Police contacted nearby hospitals to inquire about births in the past couple of days, but did not get any "useful information" that could help them identify the newborn's parents or at least the mother.
Sumit Yadav, a local resident, said when he saw the dead baby first, he thought it was a small statue. "It was all white and stiff. I was shocked when told it is a baby, not a statue."
Another local resident, Lokesh Rawat, said he had heard about people abandoning newborn daughters, but this was the first time he came to know about someone abandoning and throwing a baby boy into a pond.
Kakori station house officer Pramod Kumar Mishra said it was not immediately clear if the baby died after being thrown into the pond or before that. Mishra , however, did not rule out the possibility of an unwed mother or her relative drowning the newborn.
"The baby was abandoned in the night. The umbilical cord was found attached, which means the baby was thrown into the water just hours after birth. The condition of the body suggests the baby boy was in water for 10-12 hours," the officer said, adding that decomposition had started and identification would be very difficult now.
Police contacted nearby hospitals to inquire about births in the past couple of days, but did not get any "useful information" that could help them identify the newborn's parents or at least the mother.
Sumit Yadav, a local resident, said when he saw the dead baby first, he thought it was a small statue. "It was all white and stiff. I was shocked when told it is a baby, not a statue."
Another local resident, Lokesh Rawat, said he had heard about people abandoning newborn daughters, but this was the first time he came to know about someone abandoning and throwing a baby boy into a pond.
Quick Links
Lok Sabha Election Schedule 2019Lok Sabha Election NewsDelhi Capitals teamMI team 2019Rajasthan Royals 2019RCB team 2019Maharashtra Lok Sabha ConstituenciesBJP Candidate ListBJP List 2019 TamilnaduShiv Sena List 2019AP BJP List 2019Mamata BanerjeeBJP List 2019 MaharashtraPriyanka GandhiBJP List 2019 KarnatakaAMMK Candidate List 2019BJP List 2019 WBLok Sabha Elections in Tamil NaduBSP List 2019 UPNews in TamilLok Sabha Poll 2019Satta Matka 2018PM ModiMahagathbandhanNagpur BJP Candidate ListChandrababu NaiduTamil Nadu ElectionsUrmila MatondkarNews in TeluguMadras High CourtTejashwi YadavArvind KejriwalTejasvi SuryaPawan KalyanArvind KejriwalYogi AdityanathJaya PradaSatta King 2019Srinagar encounter
Get the app