PUNE: A day-old baby was found dead in a plastic garbage bag on the premises of a housing society in Kharadi on Tuesday morning.
A woman sanitation worker had picked up garbage from one of the multi-storied buildings in the society and handed it over to two men segregating the trash. The duo found the baby’s body and alerted the Chandannagar police.
“The boy’s body has a head injury,” assistant inspector Gajanan Jadhav told TOI on Thursday. “A post-mortem has been conducted, but the medical experts have reserved their opinion for now. The viscera has been preserved and we are investigating the case,” Jadhav said.
Police said the society has three 22-storied buildings. The woman goes to the society regularly to collect garbage, which she then hands over to the two men to sort out. The duo sort out the garbage at a spot in front of one of the buildings, police further said.
On Tuesday, the woman collected garbage as usual and gave it to the two men. According to the police, the woman was unable to precisely recall from which passage in the three buildings she picked up the bag containing the body. “We hope to recover clues from CCTV footage,” Jadhav added.
For now, the police have registered a case under Section 318 (secretly burying or otherwise disposing of the dead body of a child, whether before or after or during its birth; intentionally concealing or endeavouring to conceal the birth of such a child) of the Indian Penal Code, based on a complaint registered by one of the society’s security guards.
