A seven-month-old boy stolen from next to his drowsing mother and father at the Mathura railway station remaining week has been discovered one hundred km away, from a BJP corporator’s house in Firozabad, cracking a racket that steals and sells such children, police said.
BJP’s Vinita Agarwal and her husband allegedly sold the boy for Rs 1.8 lakh from two doctors, who were part of a big gang, because they wanted a boy. The couple already has a daughter.
All eight burglaries were arrested with the man caught on a security camera picking up the child from the platform.
Visuals of a press convention organized by the Railway Police in Mathura showed the police handing over the child to her mother and anyone smiling for the camera. Another visual showed Rs 500 notes seized by the police from the arrested doctors.
In a designated statement, senior police officer Mohammed Mushtaq stated said the kidnapping was carried out by using a gang involved in trafficking for money.
“We have determined that a person named Deep Kumar took the child. He is a phase of a gang that consists of two docs who run a hospital in the neighboring Hathras district. A few different fitness workers are also involved. We questioned the people whose house the child was seen in and they told us that they have only one daughter and want a son That’s why they made the deal,” Mr. Moshtaq said in an announcement to reporters.
No response was yet acquired from the arrested corporators facet or from the BJP.
