Overview
- In Warangal, Kazipet police and the Telangana Task Force arrested two suspects accused of targeting infants and toddlers sleeping at railway stations and on footpaths.
- Five children were rescued across several districts, including a five-month-old taken from outside Kazipet Railway Station on December 28, 2025.
- Police said the arrested men confessed to multiple kidnappings and to selling children to childless couples by falsely claiming orphanage origins, and the purchasing couples were taken into custody.
- In Andhra Pradesh’s Krishna district, police arrested three people and rescued three Scheduled Tribes children who were trafficked as labourers to duck rearers in Nandyal.
- An FIR in the Krishna case cites kidnapping, wrongful confinement, trafficking and child-labour provisions, one accused remains absconding, the rescued girls’ parents are untraced, and children have been placed with protection authorities or returned to family.