Summary:
Jalandhar, August 19A five month-old foetus was found floating in a canal at Basti Bawa Khel on Monday. The police said it was yet to ascertain if the foetus belonged to someone from Jalandhar or it had come here by floating from some distant place. Notably, on July 5, the body of a newborn baby boy was found floating in a canal near Gulab Devi Road and on July 6, the Jalandhar police had found a six-month-old foetus in a canal in Sheetal Nagar. Cases under Section 318 (concealment of birth by secret disposal of a body) of the IPC were registered. As many as nine cases of abandoned babies have been reported in the district since July last year..