Hyderabad, March 21 -- Villagers of Seethanagar were alarmed by the cries of a newborn baby girl who was found abandoned in a cotton field in Kumram-Bheem Asifabad district on Saturday, March 21.

On information, a joint team of Integrated Child Protection Services (ICPS) of the Women and Child Welfare Department and Kagaznagar police personnel rescued the child and shifted her to the Asifabad Government Hospital.

The baby is being treated in the Special Newborn Care Unit (SNCU).

According to Boorla Mahesh, District Child Protection Officer, the baby, weighing 2.6 kg, is a day old and might have been abandoned soon after birth by her parents. He told Siasat.com that a first information report (FIR) has been lodged and investigations are...