Interestingly, the woman’s husband had filed a missing person report on December 7, suspecting his wife’s involvement in the disappearance of their newborn son. The couple, daily-wage workers, has five children and struggled with mounting debts.
“I have loans of over Rs 3 lakh, and my wife suggested to me some days ago that we could sell our newborn to a childless couple for money to settle our debt. But I flatly refused, saying she should never think like that,” the father told police.
On Dec 5 evening, the baby went missing.
“I returned home from work and found my son missing. When I enquired, my wife told me he had some health issues and she had sent him to a doctor with a relative. Believing that, I had dinner and slept. The next morning, I went to work and returned at night. But there was no trace of my son again, and my wife reiterated what she had said earlier. But this time, I got suspicious and asked her to share the number of the doctor or the relative with whom my son was. But she refused, and we assaulted each other over the issue. I sustained a cut on my head,” reported ToI quoting husband.
Sold to Bengaluru woman
The following day, the man went to the cops and a filed a complaint. Subsequently, a posse of women police visited the mother. “She tried to mislead us by saying the infant was with her relative. When questioned further, she confessed to selling the baby for Rs 1.5 lakh to a single woman in Bengaluru,” an investigating officer said.Taking the woman with them, police rushed to Bengaluru and recovered the infant. Cops then arrested the mother, two associates who had facilitated the baby’s sale, and the woman who bought the infant.