Parents Of Newborn Girl Arrested For Trying To Sell Her: Maharashtra Police

In Maharashtra's Bhiwandi district, the police arrested six persons including the parents of a newborn girl child for allegedly trying to sell for ₹ 1.50 lakh.

As per reports, the police said on Saturday that they got a tip-off that couple in the district were trying to sell their infant daughter. Senior inspector Anil Deshmukh of Crime Unit 1 said that the accused couple were in dire need of money.

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Parents Sell Newborn Girl:

The police officials reportedly posed as interest buyers and contacted the middleman involved in the matter and they also negotiated for the price. The middleman then agreed at ₹ 1.5 lakh. The police first arrested the four people allegedly involved in the case and then the parents of the girl on Friday near the Thane collector's office. It was when the parents took the money and handed over their daughter to a decoy customer, Deshmukh said.

According to reports, the infant was born on December 4 this year at a government hospital. After the police arrested her parents, she was sent to a child care center at Dombivli. The police have reportedly lodged the case under the charges of human trafficking of the Indian Penal Code at the Rabodi police station.

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The accused persons have been identified by the police. They girl child's father os Vakil Shakil Ansari, 37. He works as a rickshaw driver and his wife has been identified as Mumtaz Ansari (29). The alleged middleman in the case is 22-year-old Zeenath Rashid Khan and 36-year-old Vasim Isaque Shaikh. Other accused persons are Kaynath Rizwan Khan (30), the infant's aunt and her 18-year-old cousin has also been arrested.

The police are reportedly still investigating the case and further details are awaited.

As per the National Crime Records Bureau data of 2020, Maharashtra reported the highest number of human trafficking cases in the country with 33, 964 women missing.