India, Oct. 19 -- The body of a newborn boy was recovered from a pond in Godhola village of Punhana on Friday evening, police said on Saturday. They said the body was first spotted by a villager who alerted Mohammad Asad, a fisherman who had taken the pond on lease, and the police control room.

Police officials said the body was taken out and sent for an autopsy, which will confirm whether the infant drowned after being deliberately thrown into the water. Inspector Rajesh Kumar, station house officer of the City Punhana police station, said that preliminary inspection indicated the child was born in a hospital. "It seems that the boy had taken birth in a hospital, as a clip was attached to the umbilical cord, which is fixed after birth,"...