<p>An unregistered NGO involved in trafficking infants or toddlers by putting them on sale for adoption has been busted in west Delhi’s Dwarka.<br /><br /></p>.<p>The gang was reportedly involved in the trafficking of more than 20 children. <br />The south-west district police had been alerted about the traffickers by the Director of Women and Child Development Department after it received a complaint of illegal sale of children by the NGO, named Rashtriya Janhit Jansewa Sansthan.<br /><br />The NGO operated from a flat in Dwarka’s Sector 16-B. <br /><br />The police said investigations revealed the NGO was neither registered nor authorised by the Delhi government to put up children for adoption.<br /><br />The police then sent a man and woman as decoy customers to the NGO’s office. They were assured by one Vinod Kumar that they could procure a child for Rs 4.2 lakh. <br /><br />Kumar, who was running the office, even collected Rs 8,000 from the couple as registration charges on June 4.<br /><br />The couple was promised “proper notarised documents” for the child's adoption. <br />Vinod called the couple on Monday and told them he had two children ready— a newborn and a two-year-old—and that they could choose one. The price, however, was hiked to Rs 5.5 lakh. <br /><br />The couple agreed to pay the amount for the older child.<br /><br />Two police teams were subsequently formed. While one kept a watch over the NGO premises, the other team of four members decided to follow the decoy customers.<br />As soon as the adoption formalities were completed, the decoy customers gave a missed call to the police team. <br /><br />A raid was immediately conducted at the NGO’s premises and three persons, including a woman, were arrested. <br /><br />The police also recovered a two-year-old child who was being sold. He has been sent to a child care home in the city.<br /><br />“Interrogation of the suspects and the initial scrutiny of the documents revealed that children were procured through three ways—stolen, kidnapped or gotten through IVF surrogacy,” said the police on Tuesday.<br /><br />Apart from providing notarised documents to the adoptive parents, the gang would also provide birth certificates which showed the babies as natural-born.</p>
<p>An unregistered NGO involved in trafficking infants or toddlers by putting them on sale for adoption has been busted in west Delhi’s Dwarka.<br /><br /></p>.<p>The gang was reportedly involved in the trafficking of more than 20 children. <br />The south-west district police had been alerted about the traffickers by the Director of Women and Child Development Department after it received a complaint of illegal sale of children by the NGO, named Rashtriya Janhit Jansewa Sansthan.<br /><br />The NGO operated from a flat in Dwarka’s Sector 16-B. <br /><br />The police said investigations revealed the NGO was neither registered nor authorised by the Delhi government to put up children for adoption.<br /><br />The police then sent a man and woman as decoy customers to the NGO’s office. They were assured by one Vinod Kumar that they could procure a child for Rs 4.2 lakh. <br /><br />Kumar, who was running the office, even collected Rs 8,000 from the couple as registration charges on June 4.<br /><br />The couple was promised “proper notarised documents” for the child's adoption. <br />Vinod called the couple on Monday and told them he had two children ready— a newborn and a two-year-old—and that they could choose one. The price, however, was hiked to Rs 5.5 lakh. <br /><br />The couple agreed to pay the amount for the older child.<br /><br />Two police teams were subsequently formed. While one kept a watch over the NGO premises, the other team of four members decided to follow the decoy customers.<br />As soon as the adoption formalities were completed, the decoy customers gave a missed call to the police team. <br /><br />A raid was immediately conducted at the NGO’s premises and three persons, including a woman, were arrested. <br /><br />The police also recovered a two-year-old child who was being sold. He has been sent to a child care home in the city.<br /><br />“Interrogation of the suspects and the initial scrutiny of the documents revealed that children were procured through three ways—stolen, kidnapped or gotten through IVF surrogacy,” said the police on Tuesday.<br /><br />Apart from providing notarised documents to the adoptive parents, the gang would also provide birth certificates which showed the babies as natural-born.</p>
