Police retrieved the body of a newborn girl child wrapped in a polythene bag from near a drain in Roxy Hotel lane under the Badambadi police station here on Saturday.
local police Inspector BN Pati said it could be a case of “stillbirth” from any of the several hospitals in the locality.
On Friday, the city police had had too recovered the mutilated body of a youth from the Bidyadharpur area under the Chauliganj PS. locals said the body was pushed from a running auto-rickshaw, which sped away from the spot.
The police later found out that the body belonged to one Afzal Hussain (45) of Dewan Bazaar of the city. Family members allege that Afzal was brutally murdered and his body was thrown on the road to give it a colour of road accident case.
Afzal worked as an electrician, and he jad left his house on Friday morning with two others telling family members that he was going to Jagatsinghpur for work.