Probe on after dog seen carrying newborn's body in its jaws in Haryana"A dog was carrying the newborn in its jaws. The dog dropped the body when an elderly person saw this and raised the alarm," Sub-Inspector Raj Kumar said on Sunday. 
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Chandigarh: Haryana Police have registered a case and begun an investigation after a stray dog was seen carrying the body of a newborn in its jaws at a village in Charkhi Dadri district.
"A dog was carrying the newborn in its jaws. The dog dropped the body when an elderly person saw this and raised the alarm," Sub-Inspector Raj Kumar said on Sunday.
Kumar said that someone had dumped the body in the fields, and a postmortem will be conducted.
The newborn was stated to be two to three days old and had scratch marks on the body.