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By Express News ServiceHYDERABAD: In the first seven months of this year, 28 newborn babies have been abandoned in the city and admitted at the Shishu Vihar, raising an alarm on the complex issue of babies being relinquished in an unsafe manner. “Abortion and relinquishing of a baby is not illegal in India,” noted Philip Isadore of Divya Disha Childline.“Mostly girl child is abandoned,” explains Mamtha Raghuveer of Tharuni. Female foetus found dumped in garbageHyderabad: In yet another alleged case of female foeticide, an aborted female foetus was found abandoned in a garbage dump at Meerpet of Rachakonda commissionerate on the city outskirts on Thursday. One Ashwin Kumar who found the body said, “I found a female foetus wrapped in a polythene with flies all around it,” he said. A case under section 318 of IPC is registered..