Kanpur: In a shocking and disturbing video, a lady is seen throwing off a 10-day infant off the third floor of a hospital in Kanpur. The lady has been identified as the child’s aunt.

The video went viral as soon as it surfaced on the micro-blogging site, Twitter.

In the video, the lady is seen carrying the infant in her arms and moving towards the other end of the area outside the ward. On reaching the end, the lady throws off the baby and returns with only quilt in her hand.

As per reports, the aunt was jealous as she had failed to conceive a male child. In order to satisfy our jealousy she held against her sister-in-law, she connived this act of throwing the baby off the building.

Fortunately, the child survived as it got caught in a net and was later taken out from there.

Watch the video here:

CCTV footage: Aunt throws 18 day old infant from 3rd floor of hospital building in Kanpur, infant survives. pic.twitter.com/5As1XICx8j — ANI UP (@ANINewsUP) September 6, 2016

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