Delhi:
Delhi police arrested four people, including a doctor and two women, on Monday for selling infants to childless couples.
The police received information that a gang was active in the Capital that procured children and then sold them. Further probe revealed that a person named Pawan Sharma (38), a resident of Rohini Sec-3, would come to deliver a nine-month-old infant to Ranjeeta Bhasin (48), a resident of Shivaji Vihar, for sale of the child.
"With this information we laid a trap and successfully arrested Pawan and Ranjeeta and recovered the child. During interrogation, they disclosed that about two months ago the male infant had been delivered to them in Delhi by a person from West Bengal.
"The child was being handed over to Ranjeeta for finding customers. Ranjeeta also disclosed that she has been running two organisations named 'Nav Roshini Chetna Mahila Samiti' and 'Nav Jyoti Anathalya' at Raghubir Nagar in Delhi since 1998. She also disclosed that around ten days ago she had given a girl child to Shobha Gupta, a resident of Dwarka. This male child was also to be handed over to her.
"We apprehended Shobha Gupta from her residence and she disclosed that since she runs an organisation by the name of 'Child Care' at Vashishtha Park. She further disclosed that a 38-year-old lady needed a child and she took the lady to a medical centre at Prashant Vihar.
"There Dr Atul Kumar prepared documents to show that the lady was admitted at the medical centre and the girl child had been delivered by her. The accused Pawan, Ranjeeta, Shobha and Dr Atul Kumar have been arrested and the infants were handed over to 'Upvan Home', Safdarjang Enclave, Delhi. We are investigating the matter," said Ashok Chand, Deputy Commissioner of Police, Crime and Railways.