India, May 12 -- A 43-year-old coffee planter from Karnataka's Kodagu district has been arrested for allegedly abandoning his two-week-old daughter in an auto-rickshaw at Bengaluru's Kengeri Satellite Bus Stand last month, Indian Express reported.

The accused, identified as P Appanna, a resident of Virajpet, was traced by Bengaluru police after CCTV footage captured him and his partner leaving the baby inside the vehicle during the early hours of April 24. The infant, born prematurely with a cleft lip, had been wrapped in cloth and left unattended in the backseat.

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Rajasekhar Rao, a local resident, discovered the baby crying inside the ...