Nagpur: In a major action, Nagpur Police arrested four more members of the inter-state gang stealing minors and selling them to childless couples for lakhs of rupees and rescued an infant and a toddler.
In one of the cases, accused Rajeshree Sen (45) from Shanti Nagar area had given shelter to a distressed woman and sold her newly born child to an issueless couple for Rs 1 lakh. Sen took the woman’s thumb impression on stamp papers in a bid to show that it was a legal child adoption.
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In another incident, Ambazari Police arrested Seema alias Parveen Ansari, Sachin Patil and Shweta alias Ayesha Khan for allegedly stealing five-month-old Afzal, son of Aliya Saif Ali Ansari alias Durga Mohan Sahu (28) from a Gokulpeth-based paediatrian’s clinic in September this year. Using similar modus operandi, the accused had sold the boy to a childless couple from Chhattisgarh for Rs 7 lakh.
Confirming detection of two more such cases, Commissioner of Police Amitesh Kumar said that some of the accused in the case registered at Ambazari Police Station were the same who were involved in kidnapping the eight-month-old Jiten from the legal custody of his mother Rajkumari Nishad in Kalamna area.
“DNA test of the two children of accused Yogendra Prajapati and his wife Rita would be conducted to check whether they are their own or the kidnapped ones. Investigation revealed that the Prajapati couple had kidnapped Rajkumari’s son Jiten at the behest of accused Shweta Khan,” he added.
