20 July,2020 08:20 AM IST | Mumbai | mid-day online correspondent
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In an unfortunate incident, a day-old baby girl was found abandoned along the banks of the Dombivli-Shilphata creek on Saturday. The incident came to light when a fisherman found the newborn and informed the Shil-Daighar police, who took the infant to a nearby hospital.
According to a report in Hindustan Times, the fisherman found the baby crying in the mudflats near the creek at Riverwood Park, Desai Gao. The cops took the newborn girl to a nearby hospital where the doctors said she was not sick or hurt and was healthy.
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CJ Jadhav, senior police inspector of Shil-Daighar police station, said, "We have sent the baby to children home in Navi Mumbai and have registered a case against her parents under Section 317 (abandonment) of the Indian Penal Code."
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