Couple booked in Mumbai for secretly burying the body of a 20-day-old girl

The official privy to the case said the gruesome incident took place along Link Road, near a metro station.

Crime in Mumbai: In a horrific incident reported from Mumbai, an unidentified couple has been arrested for allegedly secretly burying the body of a 20-day-old girl at Charkop in Mumbai's northern Kandivali suburb, a police official said on Thursday.

The official privy to the case said the gruesome incident took place along Link Road near a metro station on Tuesday.

“A 34-year-old man saw the couple enter a daycare center in a suspicious manner. He informed the nursery owner and later the police were alerted. The body was exhumed in the presence of police and judicial officials,” he said, adding that the unidentified couple has been booked under Section 318 of the Indian Penal Code (IPC) for secretly burying or otherwise disposing of the dead body of a child with the intention of concealing the birth.

Efforts are on to trace the couple, the official said.

(With PTI inputs)