New Delhi [India], July 13 (HBTV): Delhi Police have rescued a one-year-old child who was abducted and sold for several lakhs. Five people including four women have been arrested in this case, police said.
The police, however, did not reveal the names of the women accused in the case.
According to the police, on July 8, Sultanpuri Police Station received information that a boy child aged one year had been missing from Kanjhawala Road in Krishan Vihar since 10:30 PM on June 6.
"The boy was taken away by a lady, namely 'S'. On the statement of the mother of the missing child, namely 'C', a case was registered and the investigation was taken up immediately," the police said in a statement.
After analysing numerous CCTV camera footage and call details of suspects, the woman who is accused of abducting the child was apprehended from Krishan Vihar in Delhi. On sustained interrogation, she told the police that she had taken the child from the complainant for INR 1,50,000 and sold the child to another woman for INR 2,10,000.
Subsequently, the police caught the woman who bought the child from her residence in Delhi.
In the interrogation, she told the police that she sold the child to a couple living in the Mathura district of Uttar Pradesh for INR 3,30,000.
A police team was dispatched to Mathura. They rescued the child and arrested the couple. The police also arrested another woman who acted as a mediator between the couple and the other women accused in the case.
The husband, who was identified as Arpit, told the police that he and his wife did not have children so they wanted a child. One of the women accused in the case was a relative of the couple, said the police.
The police said that further investigation into the case is ongoing and that more people could be involved.
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