Abandoned newborn found dead in Rajkot

According to the B-Division police, locals spotted the body floating in the stream in the morning.

They informed the police, who rushed to the spot and fished out the body. A case against unidentified person s was registered.

8220;It seems the baby was abandoned the previous night,8221; said an officer of the B-Division police station, which had registered a similar case on December 9.

In that incident, a baby girl was found from a sewer near the Rajkot Marketing Yard.

The baby had bruises and some other wounds on her body. After treatment for five days at the K T Children Hospital, she was sent to Kathiyawad Balashram orphanage on the Gondal Road in the city.

This orphanage is also home to another baby girl found abandoned in a sewer under Kesari Hind Bridge on November 26.

In both the cases, complaints against unidentified person s were lodged, but the police are yet to make headway in both the cases.