Overview

• An SIT used CCTV, call-data analysis and an undercover hospital sting to trace suspects from Delhi to Agra, leading to the arrest of a doctor and multiple intermediaries.
• Police say the network leveraged hospitals, forged adoption papers and mediators to sell infants for sums ranging from about ₹1.8 lakh to ₹7.5 lakh, with boys fetching higher prices.
• Six infants were recovered across Uttar Pradesh and Uttarakhand, including the child abducted from Delhi; efforts are underway to identify and locate the biological parents of five of them.
• Investigators indicate some prospective adoptive couples were misled with fake documentation, and further arrests and rescues are being pursued as the probe expands.
• In a separate Jharkhand case, a month-old allegedly given to a relative for ₹50,000 was rescued as the Child Welfare Committee opened an inquiry and the state moved to link the family to welfare support.