A 19-year-old woman was arrested by Unit I of the Kashimira Crime Branch of Mira-Bhayandar Vasai-Virar police on Saturday for allegedly abandoning her newborn under a parked car in the Shanti Nagar area on Tuesday night. Police sources revealed that the woman told the police that as she suspected her husband would leave her if he came to know about the birth of a girl, she got scared and ran away leaving the child under the car.

The Nayanagar police had received a call about a newborn being found under a parked Ertiga car in Shantinagar, Mira Road on January 4. Along with the Nayanagar police, the Kashimira crime branch started an investigation. They scanned  dozens of CCTVs in the area and made inquiries with the residents.