Eight persons, including six women, were arrested on charges of child trafficking earlier this month from Delhi, Haryana and Uttar Pradesh, the police said on Friday. A child of seven-and-a-half months was recovered from the accused.
The accused were identified as - Neetu, Sonia, Vineet, Remha Aggarwal, Moni Begum, Pinku Devi, and Digvijay Singh.
A case was registered on May 12 on the complaint filed by a counsellor of the Delhi Commission for Women. In her complaint to the police, the counsellor said that on Saturday, she received information that the caller had sold her three-day-old baby through her friend, police said.