Nipped in the bud: The Hindu Editorial on baby trafficking
6 months, 3 weeks ago

Nipped in the bud: The Hindu Editorial on baby trafficking

The Hindu  

Criminal activity is mostly driven by a combination of socio-economic factors — poverty on one end, wealth on the other, and unmet needs or desires. While news of baby smuggling rackets dominate headlines from time to time, blowing the lid off of this network has revealed chilling subterranean levels of operation, spanning several States. An inter-State gang smuggled children from Delhi and Pune and sold them to prospective parents in Telangana and Andhra Pradesh. As per initial reports, the gang had been ‘purchasing’ babies from two persons in Delhi and one person in Pune, traffic them to Andhra Pradesh and Telangana and sell to the highest bidder among childless couples in these southern States. The government needs to do many things at once to ensure such incidents do not occur again: provide effective poverty alleviation schemes; employment opportunities for youth; generate awareness about adoption schemes for both biological and adoptive parents; remove unnecessary bureaucratic processes in adoption, and ensure effective policing to nip such plots in the bud.

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Mumbai woman sells 45-day-old baby for ₹1 lakh to fund husband’s bail, arrested in child-trafficking
1 week ago

Mumbai woman sells 45-day-old baby for ₹1 lakh to fund husband’s bail, arrested in child-trafficking

Live Mint  

Mumbai Police arrested a woman for reportedly selling her 45-day-old baby for ₹1 lakh. The police have also arrested eight more people in the crime and is probing the incident's link with a suspected interstate child trafficking network. “We registered a case under Sections 143 of the Bhartiya Nyaya Sanhita, and under various sections of the Juvenile Justice Act, 2015,” …

Mom among five held for selling infant in Telangana
3 months, 1 week ago

Mom among five held for selling infant in Telangana

New Indian Express  

ADILABAD: Khanapur police have arrested five persons over their alleged involvement in the trafficking of an infant boy for Rs 52,000 in Nirmal district. According to police, the prime accused, Attram Anitha, a 25-year-old woman who recently gave birth to the boy at a hospital in Nizamabad, returned to her native place, Khanapur, before visiting her aunt, Tekkam Padma, in …

Police bust baby trafficking ring that sold newborns to foreigners in Bali
3 months, 2 weeks ago

Police bust baby trafficking ring that sold newborns to foreigners in Bali

The Independent  

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Hyderabad link emerges in ‘sale’ of baby boy from Vijayawada
5 months, 4 weeks ago

Hyderabad link emerges in ‘sale’ of baby boy from Vijayawada

The Hindu  

An infant who was reportedly sold by his biological parents to a mediator for ₹2.65 lakh was delivered to a doctor in a Hyderabad-based hospital, according to officials. The Krishna district Child Welfare Committee which busted the racket alerted the NTR Commissionerate Police, who in turn alerted their Telangana counterparts. “A mediator named Mary contacted me when I was seven …

Parents sell baby boy for ₹2.65 lakh in Vijayawada
6 months ago

Parents sell baby boy for ₹2.65 lakh in Vijayawada

The Hindu  

The Krishna district Child Welfare Committee has busted an alleged trafficking racket as part of which an infant was sold for ₹2.65 lakh. Even as the child is yet to be traced, the CWC, as a precautionary measure, has shifted two other sons—aged four and 18 months—of the biological parents to a childcare home. We have identified two mediators—Mary and …

Maharashtra: Mumbai Police busts inter-state child selling racket, 10 arrested, 4 children rescued
7 months, 3 weeks ago

Maharashtra: Mumbai Police busts inter-state child selling racket, 10 arrested, 4 children rescued

India TV News  

Three women, engaged as fertility agents and egg donors, were arrested on Monday, as the Mumbai police unveiled an inter-state child selling racket. The racket was busted a day earlier, leading to the rescue of two children from Ahmednagar and Hyderabad, stated a Mumbai police official. With a swift crackdown, the Crime Branch has apprehended a total of 10 individuals …

Wailing child leads police to an interstate child trafficking gang, eight arrested
9 months, 3 weeks ago

Wailing child leads police to an interstate child trafficking gang, eight arrested

The Hindu  

: The Delhi police arrested eight persons in Delhi and Punjab for running an interstate child trafficking racket and rescued a 15-day-old newborn, a senior officer said on Tuesday. On further investigation, we learned that the two had been earlier booked in child trafficking cases in Punjab,” said DCP Guriqbal Singh Sidhu. “They would target families who had multiple girl …

Delhi: Couple sells newborn for Rs 3.6 lakh, 6 arrested
3 years, 6 months ago

Delhi: Couple sells newborn for Rs 3.6 lakh, 6 arrested

India Today  

The Delhi Police on Thursday arrested six people for allegedly selling an infant and later misleading the police. The couple -- Govind Kumar, and his wife Pooja Devi -- accused their relative named Haripal Singh of kidnapping their child on the morning of June 15. On receiving the information, Delhi police alerted their counterparts in Uttar Pradesh about the "kidnapping …

Rearing three children already, Telangana couple sell infant for Rs 1.5 lakh
4 years, 2 months ago

Rearing three children already, Telangana couple sell infant for Rs 1.5 lakh

India Today  

A four-month-old baby boy was sold by his parents to a childless couple staying in Vallemkunta village of Mahamutharam Mandal in Telangana. The biological parents of the baby boy who was born this year in June decided to give him away since he was their fourth child. An argument started between the childless couple and the biological parents of the …

Agra: Cross-border surrogacy racket busted, 3 infants sold for Rs 5 lakh each rescued
4 years, 6 months ago

Agra: Cross-border surrogacy racket busted, 3 infants sold for Rs 5 lakh each rescued

India Today  

In a major breakthrough in tracking down an international womb-for-hire racket, the Agra police have arrested two women and their agent on Sunday. The police rescued three infants from the women who were being taken to the Nepal border by car. Three infants aged one month each were found in the car, who were being taken from Faridabad to the …

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