The police in Maharashtra's Thane district have registered a case after the body of a newborn baby was found in the bushes on Wednesday afternoon, an official told news agency PTI on Thursday.

Passersby called the police after they spotted the body of the male child in the bushes opposite the Panchayat Samiti office on the road leading to the state-run Bai Rukminibai Hospital in Kalyan, the official told PTI.