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Ahmedabad, Oct 9 (PTI) The joint effort of 14 Gujarat police teams to trace the parents of a 8-10 month old boy abandoned outside a cowshed in Pethapur village in Gujarat"s Gandhinagar led to the toddler"s father being held for the incident within 24 hours on Saturday.
Gujarat Minister of State for Home Harsh Sanghavi said Sachin Dikshit has been nabbed from Kota in Rajasthan for allegedly abandoning infant Shivansh and was being brought to Gujarat for questioning.
"The child"s real name is Shivansh and he may be 8-10 months old.
The name Smit was given by the hospital staff and Gandhinagar corporator Diptiben who took care of him.
Preliminary probe has revealed the child does not belong to Dikshit"s wife.
He will be questioned further once he is brought here by Saturday night," Sanghavi said.