Couple who sold off their children to fund drug habit booked; one rescued
Hindustan TimesA one-month-and-22-day-old girl, who was allegedly sold off by her parents as the couple needed money to buy drugs, was rescued on Thursday, the crime branch said and added a search is on for her older brother. HT Image The police have booked the couple, identified as Shabbir Shamsher Khan and Saniya Shabbir Khan, the buyer of the child, and an agent under section 370 and 370 of the Indian Penal Code and sections of the Juvenile Justice Act. While they sold my younger nephew when he was aged six months to someone in Andheri for ₹60,000, they sold the girl on the very day she was born to a DN Nagar resident for a mere ₹14,000.” Rubina said Shabbir and Saniya earlier lived with her family in Bharat Nagar. Therefore, they first moved to Versova to live with Saniya’s mother and then to Nalasopara after her death.” In her complaint filed on Thursday, she said the couple kept struggling for money to buy substance and they had visited her house expecting monetary help.
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