Child trafficking racket sold two babies abroad
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- Created: Monday, 14 November 2016 18:15
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MYSURU: District police, which is probing a child trafficking racket in the city, has stumbled across an international connection. They found that two babies have been sold to US and Kenyan nationals by the crime syndicate.
SP Ravi D Channannanavar said the accused in custody have revealed that two babies have been sold outside India. "However, we have to verify whether the information is true. If we get enough proof to back this, we will try our best to bring the children back to India."
Meanwhile, police have identified a few children sold by the accused to couples in Kerala, Shivamogga, Dakshina Kannada and Mysuru, and efforts are in place to take their custody. Even though they are being taken care of well by the childless couples, the children can't be left with them as the adoption was done illegally, police said.
They are also mulling whether a case should be taken against the buyers.
A man from Rajasthan, who has been living in Mysuru for many years, has been booked for illegal adoption, under the charges of child trafficking and kidnap.
A team, under Nanjangud subdivision assistant superintendent of polices Divya Sara Thomas, an IPS officer, has left to Kerala to bring the children back.
Till now, police have rescued nearly eight kids from different places, who are housed at Bapuji Children's Home, a government-run institute.
The kidnap of a three-month-old baby from the streets of Nanjangud had led police to uncover the child trafficking and kidnapping racket.
Usha CJ, the mastermind, had teamed up with nurses and drivers to operate this illegal business. The gang was initially only dealing with babies abandoned and unclaimed in nursing homes but the demand for baby boy forced them to kidnap a boy from a shelterless woman in Nanjangud.
Action against nursing homes
Srimathi and Rekha, both nurses at private nursing homes, helped Usha in the child trafficking business. They helped Usha find babies abandoned at their nursing homes, whom they sold for about Rs 1 lakh. Usha, a lab assistant, is a supervisor of a Naseema Nursing Home in Mandi Mohalla, while Rekha worked at Arvind Nursing home on Irwin road.
SP Ravi D Channannanavar said the district police will write to health authorities and Karnataka Medical Council to initiate action against the nursing homes. The deputy commissioner and ZP CEO too have been informed about the child trafficking racket, he said.
Source : http://m.timesofindia.com/city/mysuru/Child-trafficking-racket-sold-two-babies-abroad/articleshow/55408138.cms
