Four booked for abandoning infants in Ahmedabad

Over the past three days, Ahmedabad Police rescued three infants and found one baby girl dead in different areas in Shahi-Baug, Ellis Bridge, and Vejalpur. Four persons have been arrested for abandoning the infants in Vejalpur in Ahmedabad.

On Monday, police found a newborn girl under a four-wheeler in Shyam Sundar Society in Vejalpur of Ahmedabad, and in the second case, a newborn girl was handed over to police by a man named Safruddin Mansuri who claimed that he saw the baby being attacked by stray dogs on Fatehwadi metro road stretch on Monday.

According to police, in the second case, the complainant Safruddin Mansuri has been arrested as the accused along with his friend Jayshree.

“The accused Safruddin, a resident of Vejalpur, allegedly was in a relationship with Jayshree and they had a baby girl. Mansuri tried to abandon the baby by keeping her on the roadside but later made up a story that he was trying to save the newborn from stray dogs and handed her over to the police. He was caught in our cross-examination… we arrested him and the woman under IPC section 317 for abandoning a child,” said LD Odedara, inspector, Vejalpur police station.

In the other case, a newborn girl was found abandoned under a Baleno car parked at the Shyam Sundar Society in Vejalpur on February 14 night. According to police, two persons Kusum and her paramour Chetan Koli have been arrested.

Police said Kusum was staying at her parent’s place in Dholka of Ahmedabad rural for the past eight months where she developed a relationship with Chetan Koli, leading to the birth of a baby girl on January 27 at a private hospital in the Visnagar area.

“Since the accused woman already had two daughters, she was not willing to take the third girl child to her husband’s place after staying at her parents’ place for eight months. So she dumped the child under a car. We held the two accused with the help of CCTV footage,” added Odedara.

According to police, both the babies are undergoing treatment at Civil Hospital in Asarwa and court will decide on their future.