A social activist and his wife, and a police sub-inspector got together to celebrate a special birthday yesterday. The trio was involved in the rescue and probe into the abandonment of a baby in an Ulhasnagar nullah on December 30, 2018. As he turned three, Shivaji and Jayashri Ragade, the couple who had saved the baby and Police Sub-Inspector TK Sawant, the case's investigation officer, met Tiger and celebrated.

Tiger's story

Tiger had been dumped in a nullah in Ambernath barely hours after his birth. Around 5 pm, Shalini Gaikwad, a local resident, heard a baby wailing, and followed the cries until she spotted a black garbage bag inside a nullah. Worried, she called social activist Shivaji Ragade for help. Shivaji was nearby, attending a wedding with his wife, and jumped into the nullah. “I grabbed the baby. He had blood all over him, and the umbilical cord was still attached to his navel. Without a second thought, my wife and I took the baby to Central Hospital in Ulhasnagar,” remembers Shivaji.