The Delhi Police on Monday busted a ring of child traffickers, including a doctor and a medical representative, who were operating in multiple cities of Uttar Pradesh. The officer posed as a patient with acute cardiac distress and infiltrated the hospital in Uttar Pradesh, busting the racket. It was followed after a child was abducted from the Sarai Kale Khan interstate bus terminal in August.
As many as 10 people associated with the ring have been arrested so far. The Delhi Police has also recovered six infants, including the one who was abducted in Delhi.
Deputy Commissioner of Police (southeast), Hemant Tiwari, said, "Of the six rescued children, one was related to the kidnapping case that was registered on August 22 at Sunlight Colony Police Station on the complaint of his parents. We are in the process of identifying and locating the biological parents of the other five infants. The children were brought to Delhi and produced before the Child Welfare Committee (CWC), which sent them to shelter homes in Delhi."
Primary interrogation revealed that the suspects had been abducting and selling infants, particularly baby boys, for the past three years. There have reportedly been 10 such sales to childless couples for Rs 2 - Rs 5 lakh.
DCP Tiwari added, "The gang members tricked the families into believing that the children were up for adoption, and they were adopting them through legal means."
The Delhi Police team was led by Inspector Rajender Dagar, who got himself admitted to the hospital. The DCP said, "The Inspector and the two SIs were sent to the chamber of Dr Kamlesh Kumar, the owner of KK Hospital in Agra, to whom one infant was sold for Rs 1.5 lakh. The officers went to the cabin, revealed their identities, arrested and interrogated him on the whereabouts of the kidnapped child. He has sold the child to a medical representative (MR) identified as Sundar Singh (35), who was later arrested at the UP-Rajasthan border, following a 50 km chase while he was trying to flee after learning about the raid at the hospital."
Later on, more people were revealed who were involved in the nexus. Police followed the trail to arrest the accused and recover the infants.