Goa, July 9 -- The Bombay High Court at Goa has quashed the chargesheet and ongoing proceedings against a woman accused of abandoning her month-old baby behind her home in Borda last year, after accepting that her actions were not deliberate but stemmed from a severe mental health condition triggered by childbirth.

The court was informed that the woman, suffering from postpartum psychosis, had wrapped her premature daughter in a plastic bag and left her outside her house in a state of mental distress. Neighbours spotted the infant soon after, and she was found unharmed. The police had later filed charges of child abandonment, causing grievous hurt and cruelty to a child.

Arguing for the woman, advocate Caroline Collasso explained that t...