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Body of a 27-day-old infant was recovered under mysterious circumstances at Chawalkhowa, 10-km from Dibrugarh town on Friday.

According to the parents, the baby girl was sleeping with her mother but went missing in the morning.

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The body of the infant was later recovered from a nearby septic tank.

โ€œAround 2 am I went to the washroom. Then I saw my daughter sleeping with her mother. Around 4.30 am I woke up again and found that my daughter was missing from the bed,โ€ said Sajidul Ali- the infantโ€™s father.

โ€œWe immediately informed the other family members and launched a search operation. We found that the main door was open,โ€ he added.

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โ€œWe could sense something terrible had happened and started searching for our daughter and later recovered her body from an uncovered septic tank near our house,โ€ Ali added.

The police have lodged a complaint and investigating the incident.

The police also questioned the infantโ€™s father, his elder brother and father.

The body of the infant has been sent for post-mortem and the report is awaited.

โ€œRight now we cannot say anything because the investigation is at the preliminary stage,โ€ said police