Navi Mumbai: Police Kamothe captured 53-year-old gynecologists and three women to sell a two-month-old girl for Rs 4 lakh.
One of the women arrested including the child’s mother.
The gynecologist, Dr.
Patil Patil, has a family health care hospital in Sector 8 Kamothe, while the other defendants are a baby mother, Amreen Bano Bakar Baksh (31), and two mediators, Rukhsar Shaikh (32) and Rukhsar Shaikh (29).
While Rajni works as a helper nurse at the Dr Patil clinic, Rukhsar is a donor of eggs for IVF treatment there.
Smita Jadhav, Senior Inspector at the Kamothe Police Station, said they acted on a tip-off of social workers that the doctor would sell a baby girl at her hospital for Rs 4 Lakh on Thursday night.
Traps are placed and a police woman, Mantan Patil (38), sent as a bait.
He was accompanied by social workers.
Manthan pretends to want to buy a baby, because he can’t imagine a child.
Dr.
Patil received Rs 4 Lakh, contacted the baby’s mother and asked her to bring the child.
The mother, Amren, who is a housewife who lives in Taloja, arrives at the clinic along with two mediators.
As soon as Dr.
Patil saved the money in a handbag on his desk and Amreen handed over the baby, a bait gave a signal team waiting outside the clinic.
They raided the clinic and arrested four accused and confiscated RS 4 lakh cash from the cabin Dr Patil.
The Senior Inspector said, “Amreen claimed he sold it two months because this was his fifth child, and he already had three sons and a girl.
He claimed that he could not care for children because of his financial crisis, because her husband left him when he was pregnant for the fifth time.
He even tried to cancel the child in a hospital in Mumbai, but the doctor refused the medical termination of pregnancy when he had passed 20 weeks.
“The police further said that Rs 4 Lakh, Dr.
Patil would take Rs 2.5 lakh.
Two mediators must be paid each of the Rs 25,000 as their commission, and the remaining RS 1 lakh is for the baby’s amreen.
Judge Judicial Vashi Masters Classes First release four who were accused of police detention until 3.
November was investigating whether Dr.
Patil had committed a similar crime in the past.