The CBI conducted several raids in Haryana and Delhi has busted a racket of child traffickers and busted a racket involved in lifting newly born children.The CBI team was able to arrest seven persons involved in human trafficking of children arresting as many as seven members of the racket kidnapping children and also rescued three newly born kids of age about two days, 15 days and of age in about a month, which included two male child and a female child. Information also reveals that CBI arrested seven members of the racket who admitted to have kidnapped 10 newly born children in the past about a month and sold them to the childless families charging an amount ranging between Rs five to six lakh each child.
Information revealed that the racket was selling children to childless couples through social media ads as well looking for the families having no child and the CBI team rescued two infants during the operation and reached up to seven members in the gang. Based on an input, the CBI on Friday evening started a search operation at seven locations in Delhi and Haryana when two infants of age 1.5-day-old and another 15 days were found by the agency sleuths which the gang was planning to sell, they said during preliminary investigation after arrest. The CBI nabbed seven members of the gang who were arrested by the agency and identified as a youth Neeraj aresident of Sonipat a prime accused, Indu Pawar of Paschim Vihar, Aslam resident of Patel Nagar, Pooja Kashyap of Kanhaiya Nagar, Anjali of Malviya Nagar, Kavita and Ritu all residents of Delhi. Police recovered from the racket Rs 5.5 lakh cash, luggage lifted with the kidnapped children and several documents.
According to a CBI spokesperson of agency, the gang allegedly contacting childless couples desirous of adopting babies through advertisement on social media platforms like Facebook page and WhatsApp groups. They allegedly purchase babies from real parents as well as surrogate mothers and thereafter sell the infant children at higher prices. These accused were also allegedly involved in duping many childless couples huge amounts of money by creating fake documents related to adoption. He disclosed that the racket had close links with IVF centre in Patel Nagar and a hospital in Delhi. The arrested accused were booked under various provisions of IPC and also of the Juvenile Justice (Care and Protection of Children) Act 2015 on allegations that a network of infant children traffickers are involved in buying and selling infants across the country for the purpose of adoption as well as for other illegal purposes.
