Police and ICDS officials busted three infant trafficking cases in Medak district over the past three months. Investigations revealed hospital staff and middlemen allegedly facilitated illegal infant sales, targeting financially vulnerable tribal families and childless couples seeking adoption.
The gangs that were facilitating the sale of infants were on the prowl in and around both government and private maternity hospitals across Medak district. The Medak police, and Integrated Child Development Scheme (ICDS) officials have busted three such sales of infants in Medak district during the past three months. Shockingly, the staff working in the hospitals were acting as facilitators for the sale of the infants.
The childless parents were approaching the staff, who were interested in making some money by acting as facilitators. In the first incident reported in February this year, a tribal couple of Lingasanipally Thanda, sold their just born son to a childless couple
from Kamareddy district, for Rs 1.70 lakh. When the Anganwadi teacher and ANM inquired about the missing infant, they had tracked down the infant in Kamareddy. The police arrested the persons who were involved in the sales.