Thane: Six persons, including the parents of a newborn baby girl, have been arrested in Thane for allegedly trying to sell the baby for Rs 1.50 lakh. A police officer gave this information on Saturday.
Police had received secret information that a couple Bhiwandi Seniors were trying to sell their newborn daughter in the district Inspector Anil Deshmukh Of Crime Unit 1, He said the couple was apparently in dire need of money.
Police officials posing as willing buyers approached the middlemen involved in the case and negotiated a price of Rs 1.5 lakh.
Inspector Deshmukh said that on Friday, a police team arrested the parents and four others from a place near the Thane collector’s office after they took the money and handed over the child to a fake customer. He told that the girl was born on December 4 in a government hospital in Bhiwandi.
After the arrest of the parents, he was sent to a child care center in Dombivli. A case under section 370 (smuggling of persons) of the Indian Penal Code has been registered at the Rabodi police station here, the official said.
The accused have been identified as advocate Shakeel Ansari (37), father of the infant, who is a rickshaw puller, mother Mumtaz Ansari (29), the alleged middleman. Zeenath Rashid Khan (22) and Wasim Isaac Sheikh (36); Kainath Rizwan Khan (30) who is the aunt of the girl and an 18-year-old youth who is her cousin. Further investigation was on.
Police had received secret information that a couple Bhiwandi Seniors were trying to sell their newborn daughter in the district Inspector Anil Deshmukh Of Crime Unit 1, He said the couple was apparently in dire need of money.
Police officials posing as willing buyers approached the middlemen involved in the case and negotiated a price of Rs 1.5 lakh.
Inspector Deshmukh said that on Friday, a police team arrested the parents and four others from a place near the Thane collector’s office after they took the money and handed over the child to a fake customer. He told that the girl was born on December 4 in a government hospital in Bhiwandi.
After the arrest of the parents, he was sent to a child care center in Dombivli. A case under section 370 (smuggling of persons) of the Indian Penal Code has been registered at the Rabodi police station here, the official said.
The accused have been identified as advocate Shakeel Ansari (37), father of the infant, who is a rickshaw puller, mother Mumtaz Ansari (29), the alleged middleman. Zeenath Rashid Khan (22) and Wasim Isaac Sheikh (36); Kainath Rizwan Khan (30) who is the aunt of the girl and an 18-year-old youth who is her cousin. Further investigation was on.
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