In a rare case, an underdeveloped foetus was found in a month-old male child in Chhattisgarh and was removed through surgery, a doctor who carried out the operation said here on Tuesday.

"I was stunned to see what the sonography results were showing, it was clearly indicating an underdeveloped foetus the size of a cricket ball in the stomach of the boy born on October 12," Ashok Bhattar, director of Raipur-based Bal Gopal Children Hospital, told reporters.