Buried alive as newborn, UP ‘miracle’ girl now at centre of neta vs foreigners adoption battle

Family of former BJP MLA Rajesh Mishra, who helped rescue the child, has claimed nodal adoption agency flouted rules to favour a couple from Malta. Case is now in Supreme Court.

New Delhi: An ‘unwanted’ baby girl who was buried alive shortly after her birth and left for dead three years ago in Bareilly, Uttar Pradesh, now has two families fighting a hotly contested legal battle over her. One is a former local BJP MLA’s family, and the other is a couple from Malta.