Overview

• Investigators scanned footage from more than 100 CCTV cameras, tracking suspects from a scooter with a concealed plate to a white car near RML Hospital and on to Kali Bari Lane.
• Three men in Delhi — Anant (22), Raju alias Rishi (24) and Sahil Kumar (21) — plus a 17-year-old were detained, and buyer Foolan Srivas was arrested in Mahoba, Uttar Pradesh.
• Police said Srivas, 54, a father of two daughters, had offered up to ₹1 lakh for a male child and ultimately paid ₹45,000 for the boy.
• The child, reported missing on September 24 from a footpath near Ganga Ram Hospital, was recovered in Mahoba on September 26 and returned to his parents after a medical examination.
• Officers seized a scooter, the car used in the offence and ₹5,500 in cash, and the wider network behind the sale remains under investigation.