With the arrest of two couples from Ghaziabad and Shadhara, New Delhi, on charges of trafficking children and selling them here, the anti-child trafficking unit of the city police is planning to unravel the entire racket by interrogating doctors and registrars of hospitals in the capital city.
The city police busted a child trafficking racket involving private maternity homes in Delhi on Monday and arrested four persons who allegedly sold babies under the guise of adoption.
Two couples — Komal Varma, 33, and her husband Ricky Varma, 33, of Ghaziabad, and Amit Sharma, 33, and his wife Jaya Sharma, 29, of Shadhara, New Delhi, were subjected to a DNA test. Sources said the suspects reportedly told the police they were real-estate owners and their domestic helpers. The investigation disclosed that they were part of gang which sold a baby ₹50,000 to a 30-year-old woman.
Ranjith, inspector of the anti-child trafficking unit, said the suspects obtained children from maternity hospitals in Delhi and Uttar Pradesh. Our preliminary report revealed that the suspects got children with collusion of doctors there who passed information to them in case an illegitimate child was born to any unmarried couple. In the normal course, any adoption is done through the Central Adoption Resource Authority. Flouting procedures, the suspects prepared documents and got registered with registrar offices in Delhi as if the child was given adoption.”
