Hyderabad: When a newborn baby is abandoned alive or dead, a case is registered by the police. However, the case is not probed further. The police said that compared to other cases, there is less effort to resolve these cases.
On an average, every month two cases of dead infants are reported from different parts of the city and around five toddlers are found abandoned alive. Many of them are females most of them no more days old and or months old.
As soon as the police gets information about an abandoned child, a case is registered. If the baby is alive, it is hand over to the child protection unit and is shifted to the Shishu Vihar.
If the baby is dead, it is disposed of after an autopsy.
After registering the case, the police verify records in the nearby hospitals. Later, the case is not followed up.
The main reason for the police to leave the case in the middle is the absence of a victim and other concerned persons to follow up the case.
"Frankly speaking, the investigating officer will not be pulled up by superiors for the pendency of these cases," said senior police official.
