India: Adoption Racket Busted UPDATED

By on 2-06-2016 in Adoption Fraud, Adoption Scams, India, Trafficking

India: Adoption Racket Busted UPDATED

“This gang specialised in providing a child overnight for a few lakhs to women who could not conceive. But what the 30-odd couples who fell for the promises of the gang didn’t know that the members, posing as owners of an adoption agency, used to in fact abduct children from slums and villages of northwest and outer Delhi and sell them.

The racket was busted by Delhi Police sleuths while investigating the abduction of a one-year-old child from northwest Delhi’s Swaroop Nagar, who has been rescued.

Police on Friday arrested nine men, identified as Hemant, Rakesh, Sonu, Kundan, Vijay, Rehan and Raju and two women, Poonam and Anita, for the crime. They have been booked under IPC sections 370(4) (bonded labour) and 34 (acting with common intention).

The gang promoted their “adoption service” through newspaper advertisements. They also used to provide the couples backdated birth certificates mentioning their names as the parents. The couples could even request for a boy or girl child.

They would keep a lookout for children as per the preferences of their “clients” and two of them would follow the daily activities of the child and the family. Once they found the child unattended, two of them would abduct them on a motorbike. In Swaroop Nagar the men had picked up the child in presence of the parents.

Cops suspect that the gang even had tie-ups with nursing homes to admit false pregnancy cases.”
Adoption racket busted, 11 held for abducting kids [Times of India 2/6/16 by TNN]

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Update: “A  day after the Delhi Police busted a racket that used to abduct children and sell them off to childless couples, cops recovered another toddler on Saturday.

On Friday a one-year-old child – abducted from northwest Delhi’s Swaroop Nagar – had been rescued.

Police say that the gang had a pan-north India network with agents in UP, Bihar and Jharkhand that used to abduct children as per specifications of the customers.

 According to police, the second child was recovered from a couple in Ghaziabad who had bought the child for Rs 1 lakh. Initially, they refused to hand over the child to the cops and lady officers were roped in to convince the mother. The couple later told the cops that they had been approached by one of the gang members, who handed over the child to them along with the legal papers, which were found to be forged.
Police said that the nine-month-old boy was abducted from Kanjhawala area. Interrogations revealed that the traffickers had tied up with a surrogacy agency. Police officials said that instead of scouting for childless couples, the traffickers would approach the surrogacy agents and ask them about those people who cannot afford the high costs of parenthood through surrogacy. The gang sold these children for anywhere between Rs 1 lakh and Rs 3 lakh, with a girl child generally costing less than a boy.”

Adoption racket: One more toddler rescued [Times of India 2/7/16 by TNN]

One Comment

  1. Astrin Ymris February 6, 2016 at 9:24 am

    I’m shocked, but not surprised. This is just a stripped-down version of the way the adoption industry usually works. Take kids from poor parents by unethical means and sell them at a profit to those with money.

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