Hyderabad: Special teams that are probing human trafficking instances rescued another baby from a couple in Andhra Pradesh and shifted the toddler to Sishu Vihar here on Saturday.
Meanwhile, some ‘parents’ who were misguided into adoption by the prime accused, A. Shoba Rani, are getting restless. Two of them, Sai Kumar and M. Ganesh, said that they would keep the babies till the biological parents come forward to claim their children.
The ‘buyers’ have been booked by Medipally police on charges of illegally procuring babies. They have reportedly hired advocates who will file a request petition in the High Court, reliable police sources said.
Police teams are coordinating with child protection units, women and child welfare departments and their counterparts from other states to nab the child traffickers and put an end to this menace.
Shoba Rani, who has sold over 50 babies in the last five six years, operates from her ‘clinic’ in Ramakrishnanagar, Peerzadiguda. She reportedly has links with a lower-rank employee in a government hospital, where an IVG centre was set up three years back, sources said.
It is quite shocking that her clandestine racket has not caught the attention of the police, child protection units and government and non-government organisations, a social worker said.
“We have spoken to the investigation officers, who suspect that Shoba Rani’s gang members might have purchased the babies from local traffickers or impoverished parents. In the last five years, she has established a nexus with traffickers from other states and IVF centres and poses as a MBBS doctor. She operates the racket,” she said.
