Thane: Body of newborn baby found in bushes

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The police in Maharashtra's Thane district have registered a case after the body of a newborn baby was found in the bushes on Wednesday afternoon, an official told news agency PTI on Thursday.

Passersby called the police after they spotted the body of the male child in the bushes opposite the Panchayat Samiti office on the road leading to the state-run Bai Rukminibai Hospital in Kalyan, the official told PTI.

The Mahatma Phule Chowk police have registered a case under Section 318 (concealment of birth by secret disposal of body) of the Indian Penal Code and a probe is underway, the official told PTI.

Meanwhile, the highly decomposed body of a 29-year-old car driver who had gone missing three days ago was found in Maharashtra's Nashik district on Tuesday, police told PTI.

Trimbakeshwar police were informed by some passers-by about a body with a rope tied around its neck lying in the Amboli ghat (mountain road) section, an official told PTI.

The deceased was identified as Asif Jaffar Dacchi, a resident of Palghar, he told PTI.

As per his family members, Dacchi, who had set out for Nashik on August 12 with three passengers, did not reach his destination and his mobile phone was switched off.

A missing person complaint was then registered at Palghar police station, senior inspector Dattatreya Kindre told PTI.

The whereabouts of the three unidentified passengers were still a mystery, he added.

The car apparently passed the Kumari toll naka in Raipur in Chhattisgarh, more than 900 km away, on August 13, but the police have yet to track it down, he said.

Palghar police are conducting further probe.

Earlier, the body of a 23-year-old woman has been found in a river in Maharashtra's Palghar district, two days after she went missing, police told PTI on Tuesday.

The woman, identified as Pooja Dubey, went missing from Nalasopara area on August 11 following which her father lodged a complaint with Tulinj police, an official from Boisar police station told PTI.

The complaint stated the woman went to take classes at a coaching centre in the afternoon, but did not return home, he said.

On August 13, some villagers while fishing spotted the body floating in the Vaitarna river and alerted the police, he said.

The police sent the body for postmortem and registered a case of accidental death, the official told PTI.

A probe was on into the case, he added.

(With inputs from PTI)