Vadodara: An infant’s body was found under a heap of sand at the construction site of Pradhan Mantri Awas Yojana (PMAY) on Ajwa Road on Tuesday morning.
The construction labourers found the body when they started picking up sand on the third floor of the building. The site supervisor informed police about it and the body was sent for post-mortem to SSG Hospital. “The labourers said that there was nothing at the spot when the sand was unloaded on the previous evening. It was during the night that somebody hid the body since nobody stays there,” said inspector V P Chauhan of Bapod police station.
Preliminary examination revealed that the infant was premature and died at the time of delivery or within hours of being delivered. Cops took the help of dog squad and forensic experts to find who hid the body under the sand.