A newborn was found abandoned inside a toilet at a five-star hotel in Worli on Monday. The police said that the child’s mother had come to the St Regis under the pretext of checking out a hall for her company event and dumped the baby wrapped in tissue inside a washroom, marked for the disabled. NM Joshi Marg police have filed a case and are searching for the 41-year-old woman.

The incident took place on May 30 morning at St Regis hotel when a housekeeping staff who was in charge of cleaning the women’s washrooms heard a baby crying from a toilet marked for the disabled. She found a newborn, soaked with blood, wrapped in tissue paper upon opening the door.