Gorakhpur: A woman allegedly sold her three-month-old son for Rs 50,000 here and made his kidnapping story to cover the incident, police said on Monday.
With the help of CCTV recording, the baby was found in two hours after the incident.
His mother and other women he sold had been detained because they were questioned, police said.
On Sunday night, Salma Khatoon, the resident of the Division of the Division was below the boundary of the Gorakhnath police station, told the police about the kidnapping of his son.
He told them that a woman, wearing a red sari, escaped in a SUV after taking her son from him near the wedding room in the area of Rasoolpur.
SP (City) Sonam Kumar along with the police team reached the place and launched baby search.
“Suspicion grows when the mother continues to change the statement and tell the kidnapping story.
When the police scan the CCTV recording area, it was found that Khatoon handed over her son to another woman and then left with e-rickshaw.” With the help of recording, the police began to explore other women and the location was found in Humayunpur Road.
The baby recovered, “said SP.
The father’s father was a ragpicker and the woman sold their son under extreme poverty conditions, police said, adding one party claimed that it was a case of adopting while the baby was handed over for RS 50,000.
Probe Into this problem is underway and many things will be clear after the investigation, police said.
But the action will be taken against the mother because it misunderstands that the child was kidnapped, they said.
According to the sources, the mother sold her son without telling her husband and when he was Asked him about the child, he cooked his kidnapping story.
Women sell babies, cooking kidnapping stories
