Dharmapuri: In what seems a return of female infanticide in the western district of Dharmapuri, the Pennagaram police on Saturday recovered the body of a newborn baby girl found abandoned in a drain close to a state-run Tasmac wine shop near here.
Police said tipplers, who came to the Tasmac shop for a drink in the afternoon, first found the body. Police then recovered the body and have kept it in the Pennagaram government hospital mortuary.
The baby girl's umbilical cord was clamped and cut. This showed the baby was delivered in the hospital and later abandoned at the place where the body was found.
The police suspect the case to be an instance of female infanticide.
This is the second body of one-day-old newborn recovered by the Dharmapuri district police in less than a fortnight.
Earlier, the Hogenakkal police recovered the decomposed body of a day-old male child found floating in the Cauvery river in a place close to the Crocodile farm, along the course of the river.
The body was found with its umbilical cord attached, which showed the boy was locally delivered and allegedly thrown in the river for reasons that the baby could have been an illegitimate offspring, police said.
