Chennai: The uniformed Railway Protection Force (RPF) personnel who mostly crack issues related to theft and violence in trains were left in tears during the early hours of Saturday when they saw an infant wrapped in a cloth inside a bag on express train that arrived at Chennai central station.
The baby girl was found inside a cloth bag at a general compartment in an express train that arrived from Hyderabad. The heart-breaking incident came to light at 5:55 a.m. when eight RPF bomb squad officials opened a white cloth bag that was found abandoned inside the CR-09488 general compartment at platform no-8 of Train no-12604 Hyderabad-Chennai super-fast express five minutes after it arrived.
“There was no one in the compartment and we saw a white bag that was half open and when we opened it, we saw a baby infant girl wrapped inside a cotton cloth with a white band numbered 337 attached to her hand. We immediately handled the baby to the Government Railway Police (GRP),” said a member of the RPF bomb squad.
Officials of the Child-helpline centre feel that the infant would have been placed inside the compartment somewhere in Andhra Pradesh. “The cloth bag is of a textile named ‘Ceralite’ in Hyderabad and moreover there are a very few stations the train stops in Tamil Nadu. This is one reason we feel that the baby was kept inside the train somewhere in AP,” said a child welfare official based at central station.
The infant baby girl is healthy and weighs 3.5 kg. Meanwhile, the GRP is investigating the origin of the infant baby who is currently been looked after at the Rajiv Gandhi government hospital.
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