female infanticide

Gullu Chaudhary, a boatman rescued a 21-day-old baby girl wrapped in a red cloth floating in the Ganga river in a wooden box decorated with Hindu gods' pictures. The incident that occurred in northern Uttar Pradesh seems like a case of intentional abandonment which is a common practice for baby girls. However, the baby is being monitored in the hospital and will be sent to a shelter home later.