In a sensational incident in Badaun, the police recovered eight foetuses from lakhanpur area under Civil lines police station area on Saturday morning.
With a large number of people converging at the site, SP of Badaun, Ashok Kumar along with senior officials rtushedto the scene and started investigations. While the police later claimed that the number of foetus was two, eye witnesses claimed that they saw eight foetuses in polythene bags.
Talking to media persons, Addl SP (Badaun) Jitendra Kumar Singh said that it could be the work of some private nursing home where abortions were carried out. He said that the number of foetus could not be counted and it would be ascertained only after autopsy as some of them were eaten by stray dogs.
Singh said that during probe, tyre marks were found nearby and some clothes and shreds of human flesh were also recovered indicating that someone had dumped it in the late hours of Friday.
All recovered items were later sent to forensic lab while the foetuses were sent for autopsy. Further investigations are on.