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A man has found a baby still alive who had been buried in a clay urn when he dug what was to be the grave of his own daughter, who died after birth, in northern India.

"He had gone to bury his own daughter and was digging the grave when his shovel hit a clay pot," said Shailesh Kumar Pandey, police superintendent of the city of Bareilly, where the discovery took place last Monday. Thursday, in the northern state of Uttar Pradesh.

The man alerted the cemetery guard, who, upon examining the urn, discovered the newborn and transferred her to the district hospital. "The condition of the girl has improved a lot," said Pandey.

The authorities have initiated an investigation to find the parents of the baby, whose identity is unknown at the moment. The man who discovered the child had lost his own daughter minutes after she was born prematurely, the local PTI agency said.

Selective abortions and female feticides

At the moment it is unknown how and why the girl was buried shortly after birth, although in India the practice of selective abortions and female feticides is widespread .

Indian law criminalizes this type of abortion and prevents doctors from revealing the sex of fetuses, precisely to curb this practice, although prenatal clinical studies continue to be conducted clandestinely.

A report by the Alliance for the Defense of Freedom (ADF) organization presented last January stated that 50,000 female fetuses are aborted each month in the country.

In India, the preference for the child is because the son perpetuates the lineage, inherits the property and takes care of his parents in old age, while, in the case of girls, the parents must pay a substantial dowry to the family of the boyfriend.

The 2011 Indian census revealed that there are 7.1 million fewer girls than boys between the ages of 0 and 6 and in the Indian population (then 1,210 million people) there are 940 women for every thousand men.

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