Interstate child selling racket: 3 more held, 2 kids recused

With the two kids rescued on Monday, the total number of children rescued has reached four.

DCP (Enforcement) Ragasudha R said, “We have arrested three more agents and rescued two children. Among those rescued are an eight-month-old girl who was sold in September 2023 and a two-year-old boy who was sold in September 2022. While the girl was sold for Rs 1.6 lakh, the boy was sold for Rs 1.90 lakh.”

The police had earlier said that they suspect a total of 14 children had been purchased and sold by agents in Maharashtra, Andhra Pradesh and Telangana.

In majority of these cases, the children who were sold came from poor families and those purchasing them were well off couples who did not have children.

The agents charged anywhere between Rs 80,000 to Rs 4 lakh for selling the children, police had said.