Tiger, who was found in a nullah in Ambernath where he was dumped just hours after birth, turned four on Friday. He marked the day amid wishes from other kids living on the same NGO premises as him. Shivaji and Jayashree Ragade, the couple who had rescued him in 2018, also paid him a visit. If everything goes well, he will celebrate his next birthday in a loving home as a US-based couple is undergoing the adoption process and is expected to take him home in the next two to three months.

Ambernath resident Shalini Gaikwad heard a baby wailing and followed the cries till she spotted a garbage bag inside a nullah, around 5 pm on December 30, 2018. Worried, she called social activist Shivaji Ragade for help. Ragade, who happened to be nearby attending an event with his wife Jayashree, arrived soon and took out the bag from the nullah.  “I grabbed the baby. He had blood all over him, 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,” Ragade recalls.