Lucknow: A case has been registered against the parents of the two-year-old girl named Gauri, who was found abandoned on the ghats of Varanasi after the blast on December 7.
The couple has been arrested and sent to jail.
The police have registered a case under Section 317 which holds person guilty of exposure and abandonment of child under twelve years.
Gauri’s parents - Nilesh Pandey a.k.a. Tuntun Pandey and mother Gita Pandey—had gone missing after the blasts. They made no efforts to search for their baby daughter even after the incident.
Photographs of the two-year-old girl were flashed across TV channels and a man named Gorakh Rajbhar contacted the local police saying that the girl’s parents were his tenants and had been conspicuous by their absence since the day of the blast.
The house they lived in was locked.
The parents were later traced to Balia in Bihar and the father Tuntun Pandey said that he had presumed that Gauri had been killed in the blast and, therefore, did not return to Varanasi. The couple said that they had fled to their native village immediately after the blast because they were too frightened to stay on in Varanasi.
ADG Brij Lal added that the police had not found any link between the couple and the blast in the holy city.