Lucknow: Baby girl found dead near Chowk hospital

LUCKNOW: Days after a baby boy’s body was recovered from a pond in Kakori, a newborn girl was found dead near Queen Mary’s Hospital in Chowk on Thursday.
Police said the baby was prematurely born. The body was sent for postmortem examination to determine if the girl was stillborn or died after birth. Police have not been able to trace the girl’s parents yet.
According to police, around 1am a few passersby spotted the newborn lying on the roadside without any clothes on and informed the police.
A local shop owner Arun Kashyap wrapped the body in a bag and handed it over to the police.
Station house officer of Chowk police station Durga Prasad said, “We are inquiring about all babies born in hospitals in Chowk area recently to trace the victim’s parents.” Thursday’s incident makes it the fourth such case to be reported from Lucknow this year. Among the four newborns found dead, three were girls.
Apart from these, nine newborns—seven girls and two boys—were rescued after being abandoned in the city this year. In 2018, 11 abandoned newborns were rescued—seven girls and four boys—from different parts of the city, up from eight cases reported in 2017.