India, Feb. 3 -- The Khar police have detained a 20-year-old domestic help for allegedly abandoning her newborn baby girl in a refuge room between the 14th and 15th floors of a building in Khar on Sunday.

According to the Khar, constable Sheetal Satish Mengade, 35, received a call from a resident of the Om Nirman building informing her that a newborn baby had been left in a plastic bag in the refuge area. A housekeeping helper found the baby and informed the resident.

Once the resident told Mengade that the baby was alive, assistant police inspector Santosh Kanse rushed to the spot and immediately took the baby girl to the Bhabha Hospital.

Investigations revealed that the child's mother was Pramila Sukhiram Tirki from Chhattisgarh, who...