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A 15-days old baby boy was abandoned by his mother in a local train in Mumbai inside a bag. The abandoned bag was lying near the footboard inside the ladies coach that was picked up by a hawker with the intension of pocketing any valuables inside. But to his surprise it had an infant.

The hawker named Kishor Kale (20) sells nail polish and resides in Shahu Nagar, Kurla. On Monday afternoon Kale boarded the ladies compartment of a train from Chhatrapati Shivaji Terminus (CST) destined for Belapur. While selling his product he noticed the abandoned bag. After several stations, when nobody seemed to claim the bag, he picked it up and got off at Kurla station around 3.45 pm, with the intension of keeping any valuables it might contain.

As the hawker climbed the the foot over bridge from platform number 7 he decided to check the contents of the bag. To his surprise, a baby stared back at him when he unzipped the bag. Kale tried to dump the bag with the baby and flee from the scene. But an alert ticket collector caught the panic-striken hawker. When the bag was unzipped a baby was revealed.

The distraught hawker was taken to the Kurla Government Railway Police (GRP), where he narrated the incident of the abandoned bag in the train that he picked up hoping it would have contain some cash. Kale said to police that he was not aware as to whom the baby belonged to. The incident took place in Wadala area, so the case was transferred to the Wadala GRP.  

The infant was fortunate to be picked up by the hawker, said a Wadala GRP official while adding that had there been a delay of 10 more minutes, the child would have died. However, senior police inspector of Wadala GRP, Jitendra Rathod said that the baby was indeed found with the hawker, but it's not yet confirmed if his claims are true. CCTV footage of cameras in between CST and Kurla has to be seen before any conclusion can be derieved.

The infant was taken to Bhabha Hospital for a medical check-up that pronounced him healthy. Later he was shifted to Dongri's Asha Sadan, a children’s home. Meanwhile, police is trying to identify the mother of the boy by enquiring in the surrounding maternity homes about a women who had given birth recently.

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