chennai a sevenmonthold boy found abandoned in thiruvika nagar on saturday is allegedly at the centre of a dispute between his hearing and speech impaired parents the boy is now in the custody of don bosco anbu illam a childrens home and will be handed over to the womans family soon police said early on saturday morning a few residents of marianayagam street in thiruvika nagar heard the cries of the boy lying in front of the house of narashimhan 40 and informed him the man apparently refused to accept him and cited a dispute with his wife kamala the residents fed the boy milk and took him to the thiruvika nagar police who conducted a preliminary health check and handed him over to authorities of don bosco anbu illam initial inquiries revealed that kamala had travelled from perungudi where she was staying with her parents and left the boy in front of narashimhans house neither of the boys parents who have been separated for five years and have been seeking a divorce has agreed to take custody of him police said narashimhan told police through a relative that he was refusing to take the child as the couple had been living separately for more than five years and the boy could not have been born to him he said the problem had caused regular quarrels among them for sometime police officers held talks with the families of the couple and said the boy would be entrusted to the womans family that had approached them on sunday he would be handed over to the family after a few formalities were completed an investigating officer said the child is healthy he added the family of the woman told police that she had a history of mental illness inquiries revealed that the couple who got married more than six years ago also have a fiveyearold daughter neither of them had a steady job or a proper income to run the family