Daijiworld Media Network – Mumbai

Mumbai, Jun 3: A newborn baby, tucked into a cloth bag, was found abandoned in the motorman’s cabin of a local train in the early hours of Sunday June 2.

TOI reported an RPF inspector deployed on Western Railway saying, “An unidentified person made a phone call to the control room of the RPF [Railway Protection Force] about a bag kept in the motorman’s cabin of a Bhayander-bound local train.”

An RPF constable posted at Dadar station was deputed to inspect the motorman’s cabin in the train, which had started from Churchgate, and was nearing Dadar around 12.50am. The constable found the bag in which the baby boy was swaddled and sleeping. The baby was sent to the civic-run Sion hospital.

Doctors who examined the child said that the week old baby’s condition is stable. A doctor confirmed that the child, who was brought in around 2am, is about a week old. He is being looked after at the transitional care unit,” said the doctor.

Railway officials are probing the incident.