Hyderabad: Woman in drunk state tosses away child on road

Hyderabad: A woman in an intoxicated state tossed away her child in front of a bus here at Bhagyanagar colony in Kukatpally on Tuesday. However, the bus driver applied brakes in a nick of time on seeing the toddler and rescued the two-year-old baby girl, Jyoti.

On noticing it, other motorists thrashed the woman Soni and the KPHB police sent the mother and child to a nearby hospital and then shifted them to women and child welfare centre.

Soni is learned to have taken the step following a quarrel with her husband Balu. The couple earns their livelihood by collecting the scarp.

No case was registered by the police.