UP: Gang involved in kidnapping, selling infants busted in UP

Since December last year, at least six unsuspecting couples in UP towns suddenly found their newborns had gone missing. There was never any ransom demand — the children simply disappeared. Seven months on, police found the gang behind it had allegedly worked out an elaborate plan — identify childless couples, promise them a baby, kidnap a newborn and then sell the infant for anywhere between Rs 45,000 and Rs 5 lakh. Sixteen people, including eight members of the gang and eight others — among them mediators and people who bought the kids — have been arrested and sent to jail.

from Times of India https://ift.tt/3iTG0NY