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As Adoption Rules Tighten, Baby Traffickers Target Pregnant Sex Workers, Says Non-Profit
Mumbai: Sex workers in Mumbai’s red light district are being lured and even forced to sell their babies, campaigners say, sparking fears that traffickers are looking for new ways to buy children in response to tighter adoption rules. The anti-trafficking charity Prerana – which runs a night shelter for the children of sex workers – has record...
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Cops Turned Sanyasis To Catch BJP's Juhi Choudhury In West Bengal Child Racket
There was high drama before the police arrested Juhi Choudhury on Tuesday night, a BJP leader, in connection with the baby selling racket in West Bengal. The CID had been able to track her down to a house in Kharibari block of Darjeeling, just a 10-minute drive from the Indo-Nepal border. The information was that Ms Chowdhury - who had slipped into...
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BJP Backs Leader Named in West Bengal Child Adoption Racket
From Juhi Chowdhury to Roopa Ganguly, the West Bengal BJP on Wednesday rallied around all party leaders named by the woman who headed the NGO that has been accused of selling children over the past few years. Chandana Chakraborty, chairperson of the NGO that ran a child-care shelter 'Bimala Sishu Griho', is at the centre of what the state police in...
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Child Trafficking Case: West Bengal BJP Leader Juhi Chowdhury Arrested
A West Bengal BJP women's wing leader Juhi Chowdhury has been arrested for pulling strings to get government funding and licences for a local NGO that was busted for running a child trafficking racket in November last. Chandana Chakraborty who headed the NGO that ran the child care home in Jalpaiguri 600 km from Kolkata had told the police that Ms ...
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Non-Profit Allegedly Selling Newborns In Bengal Busted. 2 Arrested
A West Bengal NGO being probed for allegedly selling new-born babies to buyers that include childless couples in India and abroad had forged government approvals to do so. Two women, the NGO's chief Chandana Chakraborty and its chief adoption officer, Sonali Mondal, were arrested by the state Criminal Investigation Department over the weekend.
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Rise In Baby Trafficking Cuts Adoption Numbers, Say Government Officials
By Roli Srivastava Mumbai: An increase in baby trafficking is reducing the number of children available for adoption as more couples wait to adopt, government officials said on Wednesday. Government figures show that currently 1,700 children are available for adoption in India, while some 12,400 families want to adopt. About 3,010 babies were adop...
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Adoption Awareness Drive After Baby Smuggling Racket Busted In Bengal
New Delhi: The government plans to launch a public awareness drive in the country on adoption procedures to curb the buying and selling of children. The move comes after the police found stolen babies and infant skeletons during raids on charities, clinics and homes for the mentally ill and elderly in Bengal. Thirteen babies have been rescued, and ...
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Hospital Owner Held in Trafficking Racket in Delhi
An owner of two private hospitals in southwest Delhi has been arrested for being involved in a human trafficking racket and forgery in the form of issuing fake birth certificates for adoption by childless couples.
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After NDTV Expose, Broker of Baby-Selling Racket Behind Bars, Child Reunited with Mother
Two days after NDTV's expose about a child selling racket in Telangana's Nalgonda district, the police arrested the broker, Kamli, and are trying to track the babies she has sold. They have already traced 15-month-old Madhavi, the sister of the child she was trying to sell to the NDTV team.
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Newborn Baby Sold for Rs 25,000 in West Bengal's Dhupguri
A daily wage earner allegedly sold his newborn daughter to a teacher in Dhupguri area in West Bengal's Jalpaiguri district for Rs 25,000 even as police has arrested a middleman who helped in striking the deal.
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NDTV Expose: Bhavani Was The Second Baby Who was Being Taken Away From Her Mother
The safety of Baby Bhavani -- the three-month-old at the centre of NDTV expose about sale of babies for adoption in Telangana -- had been a concern. Before the story was aired, the NDTV team went back to Nalgonda to ensure that she and her mother were all right, and found a hard truth: Bhavani was the second baby her mother was being forced to part...
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After NDTV Expose, Telangana Promises Crackdown on People Involved in Child Trafficking
The Telangana government today promised action against those responsible for child trafficking after NDTV aired its expose of an existing racket in the state to sell baby girls for adoption.
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Pregnant girls rescued from 'baby factory' in Nigeria
Nigerian police have raided an alleged illegal orphanage where they rescued young women thought to have been forced to bear children with the aim of selling them, a spokesman said on Friday.
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Adoption racket busted in Delhi, baby sellers arrested
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 ni...
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Don't arrest me, I have swine flu: Accused tells cops
When it's payback time, there is no dearth of interesting excuses. Managing trustee of Balwant Kartar Foundation (known as Preet Mandir) Sardar Joginder Singh Bhasin allegedly tried to evade arrest in Pune for his involvement in illegal adoptions by pleading ill. Sources at Central Bureau of Investigation (CBI) said, "He came with the excuse t...
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As Adoption Rules Tighten, Baby Traffickers Target Pregnant Sex Workers, Says Non-Profit
Mumbai: Sex workers in Mumbai’s red light district are being lured and even forced to sell their babies, campaigners say, sparking fears that traffickers are looking for new ways to buy children in response to tighter adoption rules. The anti-trafficking charity Prerana – which runs a night shelter for the children of sex workers – has record...
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Cops Turned Sanyasis To Catch BJP's Juhi Choudhury In West Bengal Child Racket
There was high drama before the police arrested Juhi Choudhury on Tuesday night, a BJP leader, in connection with the baby selling racket in West Bengal. The CID had been able to track her down to a house in Kharibari block of Darjeeling, just a 10-minute drive from the Indo-Nepal border. The information was that Ms Chowdhury - who had slipped into...
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BJP Backs Leader Named in West Bengal Child Adoption Racket
From Juhi Chowdhury to Roopa Ganguly, the West Bengal BJP on Wednesday rallied around all party leaders named by the woman who headed the NGO that has been accused of selling children over the past few years. Chandana Chakraborty, chairperson of the NGO that ran a child-care shelter 'Bimala Sishu Griho', is at the centre of what the state police in...
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Child Trafficking Case: West Bengal BJP Leader Juhi Chowdhury Arrested
A West Bengal BJP women's wing leader Juhi Chowdhury has been arrested for pulling strings to get government funding and licences for a local NGO that was busted for running a child trafficking racket in November last. Chandana Chakraborty who headed the NGO that ran the child care home in Jalpaiguri 600 km from Kolkata had told the police that Ms ...
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Non-Profit Allegedly Selling Newborns In Bengal Busted. 2 Arrested
A West Bengal NGO being probed for allegedly selling new-born babies to buyers that include childless couples in India and abroad had forged government approvals to do so. Two women, the NGO's chief Chandana Chakraborty and its chief adoption officer, Sonali Mondal, were arrested by the state Criminal Investigation Department over the weekend.
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Rise In Baby Trafficking Cuts Adoption Numbers, Say Government Officials
By Roli Srivastava Mumbai: An increase in baby trafficking is reducing the number of children available for adoption as more couples wait to adopt, government officials said on Wednesday. Government figures show that currently 1,700 children are available for adoption in India, while some 12,400 families want to adopt. About 3,010 babies were adop...
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Adoption Awareness Drive After Baby Smuggling Racket Busted In Bengal
New Delhi: The government plans to launch a public awareness drive in the country on adoption procedures to curb the buying and selling of children. The move comes after the police found stolen babies and infant skeletons during raids on charities, clinics and homes for the mentally ill and elderly in Bengal. Thirteen babies have been rescued, and ...
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Hospital Owner Held in Trafficking Racket in Delhi
An owner of two private hospitals in southwest Delhi has been arrested for being involved in a human trafficking racket and forgery in the form of issuing fake birth certificates for adoption by childless couples.
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After NDTV Expose, Broker of Baby-Selling Racket Behind Bars, Child Reunited with Mother
Two days after NDTV's expose about a child selling racket in Telangana's Nalgonda district, the police arrested the broker, Kamli, and are trying to track the babies she has sold. They have already traced 15-month-old Madhavi, the sister of the child she was trying to sell to the NDTV team.
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Newborn Baby Sold for Rs 25,000 in West Bengal's Dhupguri
A daily wage earner allegedly sold his newborn daughter to a teacher in Dhupguri area in West Bengal's Jalpaiguri district for Rs 25,000 even as police has arrested a middleman who helped in striking the deal.
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NDTV Expose: Bhavani Was The Second Baby Who was Being Taken Away From Her Mother
The safety of Baby Bhavani -- the three-month-old at the centre of NDTV expose about sale of babies for adoption in Telangana -- had been a concern. Before the story was aired, the NDTV team went back to Nalgonda to ensure that she and her mother were all right, and found a hard truth: Bhavani was the second baby her mother was being forced to part...
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After NDTV Expose, Telangana Promises Crackdown on People Involved in Child Trafficking
The Telangana government today promised action against those responsible for child trafficking after NDTV aired its expose of an existing racket in the state to sell baby girls for adoption.
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Pregnant girls rescued from 'baby factory' in Nigeria
Nigerian police have raided an alleged illegal orphanage where they rescued young women thought to have been forced to bear children with the aim of selling them, a spokesman said on Friday.
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Adoption racket busted in Delhi, baby sellers arrested
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 ni...
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Don't arrest me, I have swine flu: Accused tells cops
When it's payback time, there is no dearth of interesting excuses. Managing trustee of Balwant Kartar Foundation (known as Preet Mandir) Sardar Joginder Singh Bhasin allegedly tried to evade arrest in Pune for his involvement in illegal adoptions by pleading ill. Sources at Central Bureau of Investigation (CBI) said, "He came with the excuse t...
