Baby Sold

Caught trying to sell a baby for Rs 3 lakh

Mid-Day.com | Friday May 3, 2013

A quack from Ghaziabad and his female accomplice were arrested in Delhi while trying to sell a two-month-old baby for Rs 3 lakh, police said yesterday.

Punjab baby boy sold by grandfather via Facebook

Edited by Prasad Sanyal | Wednesday April 24, 2013

A baby boy from Ludhiana was sold using social networking site Facebook; a businessman from Delhi offered to pay Rs eight lakhs for him, according to the police.

Baby boy sold for Rs 1.5 lakh in Andhra Pradesh

Mid-Day.com | Monday April 22, 2013

A one-month-old boy was allegedly sold for Rs 1.5 lakh in Nizamabad district of Andhra Pradesh, officials said on Monday. He has been rescued.

Ahmedabad doctor accused of selling babies

Press Trust of India | Thursday January 31, 2013

The crime branch in Ahmedabad on Thursday claimed that Bharat Atit, the city-based doctor who had approached the Gujarat High Court to evade arrest, had sold off two new-born babies for Rs 8 lakh.

How you helped the Rajasthan couple who sold their baby for Rs 40,000

NDTV Correspondent | Wednesday August 29, 2012

The couple from Sriganganagar in Rajasthan who decided to give up their 8 day old child for adoption in exchange of Rs 40,000 so that they could fund their two-year-old child's treatment, have now received some help. A local NGO, the Tapovan trust, h...

Here's how you can help the couple who sold newborn for older son's treatment

NDTV.com | Saturday August 11, 2012

A woman and her husband from Rajasthan were arrested on Thursday for "selling" their eight-day-old child to their neighbour for Rs. 40,000. They claim they needed the money for their two-year-old paralytic son's treatment.

To fund older son's treatment, mother sold newborn

Edited by Surabhi Malik | Friday August 10, 2012

A woman and her husband from Rajasthan were arrested on Thursday for selling their eight-day-old infant to their neighbour for Rs 40,000. They claim they needed the money for their two-year-old paralytic son's treatment. They are now out on bail.

She sold her baby to get medical treatment for another child

Indo-Asian News Service | Thursday August 9, 2012

A woman, her husband and two others were arrested on Thursday for selling her new-born son for Rs.40,000 in Rajathan's Sriganganagar town, police said.

Andhra Pradesh baby sold for Rs 30,000 on bond paper

NDTV Correspondent | Wednesday July 18, 2012

On a humid June evening, near a majestic church in Medak district of Andhra Pradesh, a deal was struck. For Rs 30,000 a poor mother sold her ten-month-old son to a couple who didn't have a child. The deal was signed on a Rs 10 bond paper. The fin...

Mother accused of selling child for Rs 62 goes missing

Agencies | Monday July 16, 2012

A woman accused of selling her four-month-old baby for Rs 62 has gone missing a day after her story made the headlines. Chief Minister Nitish Kumar has said the incident has made him anxious. He said he has asked the police to handle the matter sens...

Woman sells her eight-month-old baby for $2,500

Indo-Asian News Service | Tuesday May 1, 2012

Dominican police are looking for a woman who sold her eight-month-old baby for 100,000 pesos ($2,500), authorities said Monday.

Police arrest 4 in baby-selling racket

Mid-Day.com | Friday February 24, 2012

Three days after Mid- DAY's sting operation to uncover the baby-selling racket flourishing in Ulhasnagar, the police has arrested the kingpins of the racket along with the parents of the child that was 'sold' to our undercover reporters on Thursday n...

Watch: In Mumbai, buy a baby boy in seven days for 2 lakhs

Mid-Day.com | Monday February 20, 2012

In an explosive sting operation that lasted for about a week, MiD DAY blows the lid off a thriving baby-selling racket in the city, in which infants are sold like commodities for Rs. 2-3 lakh. Two MiD DAY reporters posed as a couple and approached t...

In Mumbai, buy a baby boy in seven days for 2 lakhs

Mid-Day.com | Monday February 20, 2012

In an explosive sting operation that lasted for about a week, MiD DAY blows the lid off a thriving baby-selling racket in the city, in which infants are sold like commodities for Rs 2-3 lakh. Two MiD DAY reporters posed as a couple and approached the...

Baby Falak was sold by her father, claim maternal grandparents

NDTV Correspondent | Sunday February 12, 2012

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 hi...