BIRGUNJ, Feb. 25 -- A nursing mother has been absconding after leaving a newborn baby girl at a hospital in Birgunj.

A woman reportedly named as Sita Devi of Ranighat-6, Birgunj, is on the run after abandoning the one-day-old baby girl at Narayani Hospital on Saturday. Police suspect that both the name and address might be fake. Hospital records show that the woman named Sita Devi was admitted on Friday evening. She had arrived at the hospital along with her mother-in-law, Bedi Devi.

She gave birth to a healthy baby girl weighing 3 kg the next day, Saturday, at 6:30 AM. According to the hospital sources, Bedi was angry with her daughter-in-law for giving birth to a baby girl for the fourth straight time. They stayed in the hospital all ...