When a man went to a cremation ground in Uttar Pradesh's Bareilly to bury his baby daughter who had died due to premature birth, he found an infant girl in an earthen pot, which was buried almost three feet below the ground.

The man, identified as Hitosh Kumar Sirohi, rescued the baby girl and fed her milk using cotton. "A very inhuman incident came to light under the limits of Subhash Nagar police station in Maninath cremation ground in which a newborn girl was buried by unknown people inside an earthen pot. The baby was found by members of a family who had gone to bury their daughter who died following premature birth," an official involved in the case said. Adding that she was rushed to the ICU as soon as the police reached the spot, he said, "We are now trying to find the parents of the baby. We will take strict action against those who have buried the infant alive."

The baby girl has been named Sita by the hospital staff and she is currently undergoing treatment, according to a report.