An Indian man who sells nail polish could not pass up an opportunity to steal an abandoned bag left on a train to Belapur. Thinking he was going to find cash or goods, Kishor Kale took the bag and exited the train.
But instead of money, Kale found a baby boy alive inside the bag, Mid-day.com reported.
Kale first saw the bag while selling nail polish in the ladies' coach on a train on the Harbour line. After several stops Kale, 20, noticed that no one took the bag with them.
Kala took the bag and got off the train at Kurla station. Before he was even out the station, Kurla opened the bag and saw a baby's hand come out, Mid-day.com reported.
Kurla tried to abandon the baby, who is two-weeks old, but a train employee caught Kurla before he got away. Local police arrested the thief.
"It's good that the hawker found the bag. Had the child been inside for 10 more minutes, he would've died," Jitendra Rathod, senior police inspector of the Wadala Government Railway Police, told Mid-day.com
The suspect told police the baby was not his, and that he only took the bag because he thought there would be money inside it.
"We have found the baby with the hawker. We don't know if the story he is telling is true. We will check the CCTV footage of cameras installed between CST and Kurla to verify his claims," Rathod told Mid-day.com
Police are investigating nearby facilities for pregnant women to find the baby's mother. The boy was determined healthy after he was taken to Bhabha Hospital, and is currently in a children's home in Dongri, Mid-day.com reported.
"[Kale] inadvertently saved the boy when he decided to open the bag at Kurla," Rathod told Mid-day.com. "Otherwise the baby would've died inside during the journey."
