BAREILLY: The premature baby who survived after he was found inside a garbage dump in Bareilly, covered by hundreds of ants for nearly eight hours, succumbed during treatment at a private hospital here on Friday.
Doctors said the baby was suffering from infection in the lungs, which were underdeveloped. He had shown signs of improvement but on Friday afternoon, his pulse dropped and he collapsed.
Police had earlier registered an FIR under IPC section 317 (exposure of a child under 12 years of age by parent or person having care of it with intention of wholly abandoning it) and now, the section of culpable homicide will be added to it. The latest development would mean that the maternal grandmother of the baby, who allegedly abandoned him a few hours after he was born, may be arrested.
