A woman, who heard the baby crying from bushes, alerted villagers and the police, following which Shivpur cops admitted the infant to SSPG Divisional Hospital. Varanasi: A newborn girl, believed to be one or two days old, was found abandoned in a bag near a house in Suddhipur Kathwatiya village under Shivpur police station limits on Friday morning.
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ACP Cantt Pragya Pathak said an unidentified person abandoned the newborn near a field close to Pappu Patel’s house early on Friday.