Newborn Girl Found Abandoned in Suddhipur Village Near Varanasi

A one- or two-day-old girl was found abandoned in a sweets bag near a field in Suddhipur Kathwatiya under Shivpur police station on Friday morning, 18 September 2026. ACP (Cantt) Pragya Pathak said an unidentified person left the newborn close to Pappu Patel’s house. Around 5 am, local resident Reeta heard cries while cleaning, first thought an animal was nearby, and later with her mother found the bag holding the infant. Villagers gathered, police were informed, and Shivpur officers admitted the girl to SSPG Divisional Hospital.

This desk records only what officers and the finder described: discovery at dawn, a sweets bag at the field edge, and hospital admission. Parent identity, motive and any medical status beyond that admission are not invented here. Abandonment of a newborn is a crime probe, not a closed family narrative, and protected-survivor naming rules do not turn this into a sexual-offence identification exercise.

Suddhipur Kathwatiya sits on the Shivpur beat, where fields and village lanes run close enough that a cry at first light can travel to a courtyard. Reeta’s account — cleaning, a sound she mistook, then the bag — is the discovery stamp. Crowds followed, as they often do when an infant is found outdoors, and the station took custody for hospital care rather than leaving the child with informal guardians on the spot.

ACP Pathak’s briefing anchors the police line: unidentified abandoner, location near the field by Pappu Patel’s house, and transfer to SSPG. Shivpur police remain the investigating station. Any later claim about who left the bag will need an FIR narrative and evidence; until then, “unidentified person” is the accurate phrase.

Village mornings in the Shivpur belt usually start with cattle, hand pumps and school bags. Friday broke that rhythm when neighbours formed a knot around a sweets bag and called the thana. Officers who reached the field had to manage both the infant and the crowd before the ambulance or station vehicle moved toward SSPG Divisional Hospital. That sequence — find, alert, admit — is the only civic chain confirmed on the record.

Sweets bags are common packaging in village shops; using one to leave a newborn is part of the scene description, not a clue this desk will stretch into a motive theory. Age estimate of one or two days old comes from the police and local account, not from a paediatric discharge summary published to the press. Gender is recorded as girl. Nothing further on weight, feeding or ward status appears in the locked facts.

Friday’s stamp is grim and simple. A girl estimated at one or two days old was found alive in a sweets bag, villagers alerted the station, and Shivpur police moved her to SSPG Divisional Hospital. Readers should not assume a recovered parent, a motive file, or a discharge note that this desk has not been shown.

For the village, the morning ended with police vans and hospital paperwork rather than a neighbourhood custody arrangement. For Shivpur station, the next steps sit in the probe into who placed the bag near the field. For the infant, the only confirmed civic action on the record is admission under police escort to SSPG.