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Juhu lifeguards arrest baby disposing man

Updated on: 08 August,2011 07:10 AM IST  | 
Maleeva Rebello |

The man had entered the sea to throw his dead baby's body wrapped in a plastic bag; said he was doing it as part of its last rites

Juhu lifeguards arrest baby disposing man

The man had entered the sea to throw his dead baby's body wrapped in a plastic bag; said he was doing it as part of its last rites

IN a shocking incident, lifeguards stationed at Juhu Chowpatty caught a man who was trying to dispose of his dead baby's body in the sea.


People rushed to Juhu beach after the news of an oil spill
spread. Merchant vessel MT Pavit was been abandoned
at the beach


According to the lifeguards, they were engaged in a regular patrol of the area in the evening to check people's movements because of the MV RAK oil spill when they saw three people entering the sea carrying a plastic bag.
"Around 6 pm, we saw three people entering the sea behind Tulip Star Hotel. When we shouted out and asked them to stop, two of them made a run for it.
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The third, however, ventured further into the sea and threw the plastic bag.

We caught him, recovered the bag and were shocked to see a dead baby's body in it," said D Bunty Rao, one of the lifeguards who intercepted the man.

The man, identified as Akhilesh Upadhyay, was taken to the Santa Cruz police station, where he claimed to be the baby's father.

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Akhilesh Upadhyay, the man who threw his dead
baby's body into the sea at Juhu yesterday


He said his wife had delivered it as a stillborn at their Andheri residence. The body has been sent to Cooper Hospital for an autopsy.

"The man told us that since the baby had died, he had come to dispose of its body in the sea as part of the last rites," added Rao.
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A senior police official from the Santa Cruz police said they have arrested Upadhyay and are investigating the matter.u00a0




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