Baby Falak was sold by her father, claim maternal grandparents

New Delhi: In the latest twist in the baby Falak case, maternal grandparents of the two-year-old, who is battling for survival in the AIIMS trauma Centre in the national capital, have alleged that the baby's father sold her. They claim that Shah Hussain sold his wife, Munni, and their three children including Falak.

"7 years ago we married off Munni to Shah Hussain. Shah Hussain kept her for sometime, then they had a son and a daughter. Falak was born after that. Six months ago, he took them to Delhi and sold them off. We want to meet them. He sold them off for trading," Falak's grandparents said.

However, the Delhi Police has not yet named Munni's husband in the investigations so far.

The Delhi police on Friday arrested the key accused, Rajkumar while he was trying to flee the capital.

Falak's mother - 22-year-old Munni - was brought to Delhi on Monday after a police search that lasted several weeks, ended in Rajasthan, where she lived with her second husband, a man she was sold to for two lakhs.

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Munni was 16 when she was married to Shah Hussain, allegedly petty criminal in Bihar. After they had three children, he walked out on his family. An acquaintance promised Munni a job if she moved to Delhi. So she moved to the capital only to discover that the job on offer was prostitution. A group of six people who Munni encountered appear to have been involved in human trafficking, though the police will not say this on record just yet. (Read: Agent who sold Munni did not know she had three children)

When Munni turned down their requests to become a sex worker, Kanta and Lakshmi persuaded her to marry a man in Rajasthan. They offered to look after her children while she began her new married life. Soon, they promised, her husband would accept her children and she could take them to Rajasthan. That was few months ago.

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