‘Doll-like object floating in water’: Pune Fire Brigade finds foetus at Warje crematorium ghat

After receiving information, a Pune city police team reached the spot and took the foetus for investigation. The police sent the foetus to a hospital for medical examination and launched a probe to determine who dumped the foetus in the river and how.

Teams of the Fire Brigade and lifeguards have been deployed at various ghats and riverbeds in Pune city, where many people visit for the immersion of Ganesh idols.

In March this year, a Wanavdi police station team arrested a 21-year-old woman for allegedly dumping a male foetus in the drainage in the Hadapsar area. She was booked under Section 94 (concealing birth of a child) of the Bharatiya Nyaya Sanhita (BNS).

Also in March, the Pune rural police found a foetus along with biomedical and surgical waste dumped in eleven jars at an open waste disposal site in the Daund town of the Pune district.

The police had said that there were 11 jars at the site. One of the jars had the foetus, while others had biomedical and surgical waste. They said it was openly discarded at the site in a hazardous manner.

The police filed an FIR against an unidentified person at the Daund police station. They invoked various BNS sections about miscarriage without consent, and those about negligent acts likely to spread infection of a disease dangerous to life.