On Sunday morning, locals passing by Baguiati's Taltala area noticed a few stray dogs nibbling two tiny human like objects. Coming close, they discovered that the grisly objects were human foetuses. Shooing away the dogs, they informed the Baguiati police outpost.

The police later recovered the foetuses and sent them for postmortem.

“It is possible that the dogs dragged the foetuses to the spot after they were dumped nearby by someone from a local nursing home,” said a local.

Locals alleged that with several private nursing homes mushrooming along VIP Road at Baguiati, Dum Dum and Kestopur, many were going through foeticides and abortions and the nursing home authorities were dumping the foetuses on garbage heaps. Last year, a foetus was found dumped on the road near Baguiati’s Big Bazar. “Some private nursing homes where such illegal practices take place have come up in the area. Many women walk into these nursing homes to undergo abortions at very cheap rates,” said a local resident.

“There are 18 such nursing homes operating in these areas. Many times we have asked the nursing home authorities to properly bury the foetuses by digging the ground, but the instructions are not properly followed. We do not have the infrastructure to check which nursing homes are violating the norms,” said an officer of Baguiati police station.