Baby Adoption Racket

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...

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...

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 ...

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.

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...

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 ...

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.

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.

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...

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.

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.

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...

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...

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...

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 ...

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.

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...

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 ...

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.

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.

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...

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.

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.

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...