Body of newborn found with throat slit in Gurugram’s Badshahpur

Investigators said that a sanitation worker, Rajesh Kumar, spotted the body while carrying out routine cleaning work on the morning of November 17.

Updated on: Nov 25, 2023, 05:30:16 IST

By Debashish Karmakar

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Unidentified suspects have been booked for allegedly murdering a newborn infant by slitting his throat and dumping the body alongside Noorpur-Jharsa road in Badshahpur, police officers aware of the matter said on Friday.

Investigators said that a sanitation worker, Rajesh Kumar, spotted the body while carrying out routine cleaning work on the morning of November 17. He alerted his supervisor as well as the police control room, following which an emergency response vehicle reached the spot.

Police said that the autopsy report said that the infant’s throat was slit with a sharp weapon with blunt edges.

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Inspector Satish Kumar, station house officer of Badshahpur police station, said that the body was packed inside a polythene bag and then dumped along the roadside.

“We are scanning CCTV camera footage of nearby areas and collecting information from various sources,” he said. Kumar said that the infant was born a day or two before his death.

He said that an FIR against unidentified suspects was registered under sections 201 (causing disappearance of evidence of offence), 302 (murder) and 318 (concealment of birth by secret disposal of dead body of a child) of Indian Penal Code at Badshahpur police station on Thursday night.

Officials said that the crime branch teams have also been roped in to trace the suspects involved in the murder.

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Debashish Karmakar
Debashish Karmakar is a principal correspondent with the Hindustan Times, Gurugram bureau. He has a vast journalistic experience of almost 14 years of covering crime, court, power, transport, administration, weather and other beats while working across various organisations. He has been covering Gurugram, Faridabad, Nuh, Palwal and other districts of southern Haryana for more than four and a half years. He has produced several breaking and exclusive stories while reporting from the ground where he maintains a strong presence on a daily basis. He writes news articles which are hard-hitting and accurate. With his strong bureaucratic sources, he frequently writes stories to expose the failure of the system forcing authorities to take necessary course-corrective steps. Besides crime, important convictions and court orders, he also writes on human-angle stories, on power issues and challenges faced by the residents on a daily basis in Gurugram and neighbouring areas. In the past, he worked for media houses like The Times of India, where he extensively reported on important government matters and daily proceedings at the Patna High Court. He has also worked in the electronic media and had done ground coverage on the Kedarnath deluge that wrecked Uttarakhand in 2013.Read More