Kolkata:
Just a few days after Baby Falak's story made headlines across the country, another infant girl has been found abandoned - this time in a train in West Bengal.
Estimated to be six months old, the infant was found on the Toofan Express heading to Kolkata yesterday. Passengers realised that the infant had been abandoned when the train reached the Chittaranjan station.
"We got on to the train and reached near Madhupur, one of the passengers informed that there is an unclaimed baby. We quickly informed the commercial controller of Asansol district," said PP Bera, a railway official who was travelling on the train.
The girl was handed over to the railway police at Asansol, from where she was immediately rushed to a local hospital. Unlike Baby Falak, who was battered and bruised when she was brought to Delhi's AIIMS, this baby was found to be in good health. She has been handed over to Child Line, a local NGO.
Today, she will be presented before a magistrate to decide her fate. According to the procedure followed in such cases, an advertisement will be put out in the newspapers to see if anybody comes forward to claim the infant. If nobody contacts the authorities within the next two months, the child is likely to be put up for adoption.