Gang engaged in the procurement and selling of infants found in Delhi; eight people detained

An interstate human trafficking organization has been brought down by the police, and they have also freed a newborn girl from the racketeers’ grasp. There are now eight persons under arrest, five of them are women.

A police control room (PCR) call about the unauthorized sale and purchase of newborn newborns in the vicinity was received on February 20 at the Begumpur police station, according to Deputy Commissioner of Police (Rohini) G S Sidhu. According to the DCP, “a police team arrived at the specified address, confirmed the details of the call, and found that two women in the house were in possession of a newborn girl child, aged approximately 10-15 days.”

The ladies ran an interstate human trafficking group that buys and sells newborn infants in many north Indian states. They were unable to satisfactorily explain the child’s paternity throughout the investigation.

They had paid Rs 50,000 to buy the newborn child they now owned from Muktsar, Punjab. The said ladies were holding out for the ideal buyer for the child.

The accused ladies were detained by the police, who also filed a formal complaint against them under the Juvenile Justice Act and other parts of the Indian Penal Code. They gave the identities of additional gang members to the police after they questioned them for a long time.

The DCP said, “Several raids were carried out in Punjab, leading to the arrest of six additional gang members, including three females, in connection with the case.”

The senior police official named the accused as Piyush Aggarwal, a resident of Jain Nagar in Delhi, Rajinder, Raman, and five ladies, two of whom are from Delhi and three of whom are from Abohar, Punjab.