Foetus found dumped between parked cars

COPS SAID THE FOETUS WAS 78 MONTHS OLD, BUT THEY DIDN’T DIVULGE ITS GENDER

Wrapped in a rag, a foetus was found dumped between a fleet of parked cars in a residential colony in northwest Delhi’s Jahangirpuri on Thursday night.

The cars were parked on the roadside in Jahangirpuri’s I Block. One of the car owners, wanting to take a drive, spotted the cloth bundle next to his vehicle. On opening it, he found a foetus inside. Suspecting that it was the body of a newborn child, the man called the police.

Police arrived at the spot and sent the foetus to a nearby hospital. A senior police officer said it appeared to be around seveneight months old, but did not divulge its gender. The CCTV cameras in the area are being scanned for clues, but no headway was made until Friday morning.

Suspecting that the foetus could be the result of an unwanted pregnancy, the officer said a FIR would be registered in this connection.

Delhi has been witnessing several instances of foetuses being dumped in drains and hospital bathrooms.

On February 20, a five-monthold male foetus was found abandoned in a toilet in south Delhi’s Madan Mohan Malviya hospital in Delhi. On the same day, a female foetus was found wrapped in a newspaper inside a dustbin of an upscale residential complex in Gurgaon.

India’s Medical Termination of Pregnancy (MTP) Act legalises abortion up to 20 weeks if there is threat to the mother’s life or her physical or mental health, or if the unborn baby has abnormalities.