Locals Rescue Newborn Buried Alive by Mother at Graveyard in Bihar's Purnia

In a shocking incident, stray dogs dug the newborn out of the ground in a graveyard and were scratching at the infant when it began to whimper. As soon as the neighbours heard the child's wails, they drove the stray dogs away and rushed the child to the GMCH.

Purnia (Bihar): In a heart-wrenching incident, a newborn, who was buried alive by her mother, was rescued by locals at a graveyard under the Kaptan bridge near the Sadar Police Station area on Saturday. Immediately, the newborn has been admitted to the Government Medical College & Hospital (GMCH) in critical condition.

According to sources, the newborn started crying after the dogs dug it out of the ground and started scratching it. Hearing its wails, the locals present there immediately chased the stray dogs and admitted it to the GMCH. Taking into consideration the serious condition of the newborn, the GMHC doctors referred it to a higher centre later.

It is yet to be ascertained why the mother buried her child. People started commenting on the intentions of the mother as it is a rare sight for a child to be abandoned by its mother in such a terrible condition. Several other incidents of newborns being abandoned or buried alive came to light recently. Such cases have been on a steady rise lately and have caught the attention of citizens across the country. On May 5, a newborn girl was found abandoned on a roadside and was partly buried under a pile of sand in Telangana's Damera mandal.

According to sources, some local women, who were working on the extension of the National Highway, noticed the baby's legs underneath the sand and informed the police.

In April, a newborn girl was found abandoned in front of the Dr Bhimrao Ambedkar statue located in Uttar Pradesh's Ghazipur area. Sources speculated that just a few hours after giving birth, the mother wrapped her baby in a cloth and left it there.

In January, an infant girl allegedly born out of an illicit relationship was recovered alive from a rathole after being buried alive by her mother in Jagdalpur district of Bastar division of Chhattisgarh.

Local sources said that the incident came to light after a village sarpanch was passing through the area and heard the cries of an infant. As the village head tried to trace the sound of the cries, he was led to a rat hole where the newborn girl had been buried alive by covering the hole with mud. The village head raised a hue and cry and rushed to the village with the girl.