Bengaluru, June 17: An abandoned baby boy survived after a female cop breastfed it, died at Indira Gandhi Pediatric hospital at Jayanagar here on Sunday.

Hospital sources said that the baby succumbed to the head injury and umbilical cord infection. Authorities of child care centre on Hosur road in the city informed the Electronic City police about the death of the child.

The newborn baby, might be a few hours old, which was dumped in a rubble near a construction site, was rescued by the Electronic City police. Later, a female cop DS Archana, attached to the police station, breastfed the baby and nurtured it. On Sunday, Archana was asked to go to hospital and verify the situation. But when she had been to the hospital, she found that the baby boy succumbed to the injury and infection.

When she was informed about the death of the child, Archana was grief stricken and crying. After the child was handed over to the child care centre, the child was suffering with serious health problems. So, the baby was admitted to the hospital for treatment.

Archana, a mother of five-month-old child, got appreciation from Chief Minister HD Kumaraswamy, Police Commissioner and general public for protecting the baby which was found near the construction site on June 1. After saving the baby, she got the treatment to the baby in a nearby hospital. Electronic City police booked a case in this regard.

 

 

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Noida (PTI): A woman was duped of Rs 34 lakh here in a case of "digital arrest" by cyber criminals who threatened her with fake notices by the Enforcement Directorate, officials said on Sunday

The fraudsters claimed that a parcel is being sent from Mumbai to Iran in her name containing five passports, two debit cards, two laptops, 900 US dollars and 200 grams of narcotics, they said.

The victim received a call form the fraudsters on around 10 pm on August 8, she said in her complaint.

The Gautam Buddha cyber crime police station has registered a case and started investigation in the matter, Inspector-in-charge Vijay Kumar Gautam said.

According to the complaint of Nidhi Paliwal, a resident of Sector-41, the fraudsters sent her a complaint via WhatsApp and asked her to send Rs 34 lakh.

An accused also video called her on Skype with the video switched off, Paliwal said in her complaint.

Inspector Gautam said the accused also sent two notices of Enforcement Directorate (ED), in which serious allegations were made against the victim. A probe on the matter is underway, he said.