The court — while considering the deposition of 20 witnesses and over 40 documentary and material evidences, concluded that the couple had “intended to do away” with the child and “did not want to keep the baby”Five years after a newborn girl was found abandoned in the toilet of a complex in Ambaliyasan town in Mehsana district, and succumbed four days later at the civil hospital, her parents have been sentenced to three years’ rigorous imprisonment by the District and Sessions Court of Mehsana.The convicted couple, Prakashji Thakore (then 27) and Chetna Thakor (then 21) — who work as labourers — were accused of abandoning the newborn in a public toilet of a complex, where they had visited a hospital on the morning of February 21, 2020, seeking “treatment for unbearable pain” being experienced by the woman, who had told the hospital that she was “six months pregnant”.The court — while considering the deposition of 20 witnesses and over 40 documentary and material evidences on record, including CCTV footage of the complex of the day the child was abandoned —concluded that the couple had “intended to do away” with the child and “did not want to keep the baby”.The DNA samples of the couple had been matched with the newborn to establish the biological relation.© The Indian Express Pvt LtdTags:infant deathMehsana district