A two-day-old baby boy was found lying abandoned at a railway platform in Vasai on Wednesday. A sweeper noticed the infant and reported it to the railway authorities.
A two-day-old baby boy was found lying abandoned at a railway platform in Vasai on Wednesday. A sweeper noticed the infant and reported it to the railway authorities.
Sources from the railway police said that since platform number one, where the baby was found, remains unused most of the time, the baby was not discovered earlier. Also, nobody was seen leaving the baby there.
On Wednesday around noon, while sweeping the platform, Zarina Sheikh (45), noticed a blanket placed on a bench on the platform. When she went to inspect it, to her surprise, she found an infant lying on the blanket. She then informed railway authorities about it immediately.
The railway police sources said that the baby did not have any proof of identity with it and it seemed like the mother had abandoned him. On getting to know about the infant, railway police officials sent the boy for medical check-up in a state-run hospital in Navghar. For his detailed check-up, however, he was referred to the nearby Cardinal Gracious Hospital. After the check-up, the doctors said that the baby was just two days old.
“As the baby remained on the platform without a single cloth on him, he has fallen unwell and is being treated now. He is on the road to recovery,” a police official said on the condition of anonymity. After the baby recovers, he will be sent to an orphanage, the official added.
The Vasai police has registered a case against an unknown woman for abandoning the baby. Confirming the incident, a senior railway police official said, “We are going through the CCTV footage to spot and identify whoever left the baby on the platform.”
Further, in order to identify the mother, the police has been contacting all the maternity homes of Vasai and Virar area to identify all the women who delivered a baby boy in the last three days.
They will then visit each of the women to identify the mother of the recently found infant.
Interestingly, another official informed The Asian Age that earlier there were 16 CCTV cameras at the Vasai railway station and then 46 more were installed, but the spot where the baby was discovered is not under surveillance at all.
