Overview

• Villagers in Nandanwadi, Chhindwara, followed cries to a forest spot and pulled a three-day-old boy from beneath stones before rushing him to hospital.
• Doctors at Chhindwara District Hospital reported ant bites and signs of hypothermia, and the infant remains under medical supervision.
• The parents, Bablu Dandoliya and Rajkumari Dandoliya, both government primary-school teachers, were arrested after the father admitted to burying the baby.
• Police registered a child-abandonment case under Section 93 of the Bharatiya Nyaya Sanhita and are consulting senior officials on adding attempted-murder charges after the video surfaced.
• Investigators say the couple already had three children and concealed one from official records due to Madhya Pradesh’s two-child rule for government employees.