A day after a child was found unattended outside a Swaminarayan Gaushala in Pethapur village near Gandhinagar, police on Saturday identified the child’s father.
The child, aged 8-10 months, was later taken to the Civil Hospital in Gandhinagar. State Home Minister Harsh Sanghvi visited the hospital on Saturday to take care of the child. According to the police, Sachin Dixit, a resident of Sector-26 of Gandhinagar city, was the father of the child.
Police said Dixit has been living with his wife at the address for the last 10 years and hails from Uttar Pradesh. “Preliminary investigation has said that the child was not born to Dixit’s wife,” Sanghvi told media persons. Police said Dixit had left for Rajasthan on Saturday.
“We have tracked them down and they are returning from Kota,” said Sanghvi.
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