A newborn baby was rescued by the Triplicane police after it was brought to the Omandurar multi-speciality hospital by the father who tried to handover the infant to the hospital as an abandoned child on Sunday.

A senior official of the City police said M. Praveen, 21, a native of Nilgiris, was in a relationship with a post-graduate student, the mother, at Madras University. The couple took a room at a lodge in Triplicane, where the boy was born on Saturday night.