Police on Tuesday arrested a 38-year-old man on the charge of abandoning his newborn daughter, who had been rescued from a manure pit in a field on Saturday at village Shyamasundarpur under the Jenapur police station of Jajpur district.
Jajpur Superintendent of Police Anup Kumar Sahoo said, “Ramesh Chandra Basantia of Shyamasundarpur was arrested under sections 307 and 317 of IPC. The infant’s mother Mamata has been sent for medical examination.”
Basantia and his wife Mamata have four children, two daughters laxmipriya (11) and Subhalaxmi (9) and two sons Debashis (6) and Omsagar (4).
On Saturday morning, Mamata had delivered the third girl, for which her husband was dissatisfied and he abandoned the baby. locals rescued the child after hearing her cry. Now, the newborn, named Dharitri, is undergoing treatment in the District Headquarters Hospital, added the SP.