Abandoned by her own, newborn girl becomes everyone’s favourite at Jalandhar orphanage
JALANDHAR: In the wee hours of February 8, when the region was still reeling under severe chill, a newborn girl was wrapped in a polythene bag and abandoned near a garbage dump at Vijay Nagar in Jalandhar. Her cries broke the silence of the locality, bringing some Good Samaritans to her rescue.
Soon cops rushed there and took the baby in their custody. Later, she was handed over to a social welfare organisation, which named her Avneet, meaning kind-hearted.
It’s been a month and today Avneet, who was abandoned by her own, is everyone’s favourite at ‘Unique Home’, an orphanage for girl children run by Bhai Ghanayya Ji Charitable Trust. She was brought here after a week-long treatment for chest infection and wounds on her back and legs at a private hospital.
Other children at the orphanage look forward to play with the infant. Her innocent smiles and laughs are enough to make them forget their own misfortune. The staff, too, works round the clock to provide her and other kids with proper care, which they have deprived of by their parents or by stroke of bad luck.
HER CASE, LIKE MANY OTHERS, IS UNSOLVED
Meanwhile, police are still clueless about the people who abandoned Avneet, and the case hasn’t moved forward after registration of a first information report (FIR). Division No. 2 station house officer (SHO) inspector Kuldeep Singh says they have scanned closed-circuit television footage to identify the culprits, and even sought help of local health workers to trace the infant’s mother, but to no avail.