LUCKNOW, India: A man digging a grave in northern India found a newborn girl buried alive, police said Monday, in the latest case to shine a spotlight on female infanticide in the country. Hitesh Sirohi had gone to bury his own daughter, who died a few minutes after birth on Wednesday, when his spade hit an earthen pot, local police in Uttar Pradesh state told AFP. “When he noticed a newborn girl inside it, he immediately rescued her and dialled... for help.”Sirohi told the Times of India he found the baby wrapped in a cloth and crying. In 2017, police in western Maharashtra state recovered 19 female foetuses from a sewer near a clinic. A doctor was arrested and charged with illegally aborting female foetuses for parents desperate for a boy.--AFP

Source: New Strait Times October 14, 2019 18:00 UTC