KOCHI: Antony Tijin, who stayed along with the family in which a two-and-half-year-old girl was allegedly beaten, is absconding. Even though a notice was sent by the police summoning him for interrogation, there has been no response. The last tower location was spotted in Muthanga. The investigation officers have intensified the search for Antony.

Meantime, the doctors have informed that there is a slight improvement in the health of the infant. The child is responding to medicines. The two-and-half-year-old girl was brought to the hospital on Sunday evening. Antony Tijin had then spoken to the police.

He went into hiding along with the infant’s aunt and her son, on Sunday night. The visuals of him escaping in a car had surfaced, the previous day. The infant’s mother and sister had been living separately from their husbands for some time. The two-and-half-year-old girl’s father had visited her at the hospital on Tuesday.