Five women are among seven people arrested from Odisha’s steel city Rourkela as police cracked a newborn babies trafficking racket flourishing across interstate borders, officials said on Tuesday.<\/p>\n
The officials of Plant Site police station in Sundergarh district cracked the racket, following a complaint filed by one Seema Khuntia who alleged that her one-and-a-half-year-old granddaughter was abducted.<\/p>\n
Rourkela Additional SP, Bikram Keshari Bhoi said, “Eight out of seven involved in the crime have been arrested and their mobile phones have been seized. We found a lot of pictures of new born babies in their mobile phones, which indicate that they are involved in child trafficking.”<\/p>\n
The baby was rescued from the possession of the accused persons, he said.<\/p>\n
Many of those arrested belong to well-to-do families and they lured poor families in Rourkela with money and bought their children. They were getting upto Rs 4 lakh for selling a male baby and upto Rs 1 lakh for girl child, police said.<\/p>\n
Subsequently, they sold the children outside the state, especially in Jharkhand and Chhattisgarh, they said.<\/p>\n
A case has been registered against and further investigation is under way.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"
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