Police successfully rescued a newborn girl about to be buried by her family in a suburb of Hyderabad on November 1.

Police today caught the newborn baby's grandfather holding his baby in a blanket while another man was digging holes in a wasteland on the outskirts of Hyderabad, south of India. The two initially held a newborn baby girl waving a taxi, saying she had died in the hospital and asked to go to the wasteland.

However, the taxi driver aroused suspicion when he saw the girl was still moving under the covers and informed the police. Two men were arrested but released shortly thereafter.

"They thought the baby was dead and other family members told them not to take the body home," police A. Srinivasulu said, adding that they were happy when the girl was rescued.

Newborn baby girl being treated at the hospital.

The news comes two weeks after a newborn girl was rescued from an earthenware jar buried in the state of Uttar Pradesh. India is a famous sexist nation, when girls are considered a burden of money because of the dowry money they have to pay when they get married.

This has made India one of the countries with the highest sex ratio in the world with only 940 women per 1,000 men, according to the 2011 census data.