Representative image showing a baby's foot.
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Davangere: Karnataka State Commission for Protection of Child Rights, on Thursday, has booked a suo motu case after a newborn baby girl was found in a bucket in the bathroom of taluk general hospital in Honnali town a few days ago.
Speaking to DH, the commission member Shashidhara Kosumbe said, "I have spoken to the district health officer and the baby is healthy in an adoption centre run by the government. I have asked the officials concerned to visit the hospital and submit a detailed report to the commission. Honnali police registered a case."
Sources also stated that an unmarried woman, attending classes in a coaching centre in Bengaluru, had delivered a baby girl and had voluntarily decided to give away the child to the adoption centre.