Gurgaon: Police on Tuesday arrested two members of the child’s trade gang and saved a five-month-old girl from them, who took the total number of arrests in this case to 13 and the number of rescue to four January from January 8 to the police, the Duo arrested, Identified as anand and baby, has a plan to sell a five-month old.
While Anand was arrested in Delhi, the police arrested a baby from Rajasthan.
“Anand is involved in buying children from a couple from a humble background.
The gang is mostly targeting those who work as workers, live on streets or slums and does not mean raising children,” Inspector Manoj Kumar, Station House Officer (Sho), DLF 3, said.
Gang, he added, is used to pay a small amount to parents and sell children at a higher price.
The police earlier revealed that the gang sold children to the street players community in Rajasthan for Rs 1.5 Lakh (for girls) to RS 4 Lakh (boys).
The players then train children to show the action of dangerous roads such as walking on a rope.
All arrests in this case are from Delhi and Rajasthan.
Meanwhile, four babies, including three girls, have been saved from the gang until now.
Two previous girls were saved less than one month, and the boy was four months old.
According to the police, the girls are in demand because street players sell them to older men as brides after they reach a certain age.
The police are still trying to find the total number of children sold by gangs and find all such children.
The gang was held back on January 8 after the taxi driver drove to the DLF 3 police station and complained about two women and a man in his taxi.
The driver has heard a telephone conversation between one of the women and someone from Alwar, Rajasthan, negotiating to buy a baby.