Mumbai:In a major breakthrough, the Maharashtra police have successfully busted a kidnapping gang that operated across four states: Maharashtra, Gujarat, Telangana, and Andhra Pradesh. The police managed to rescue four children who had gone missing since December 2021. Shockingly, investigations revealed that the children were kidnapped from schools in Maharashtra and then sold to childless couples for prices ranging from Rs 1.5 lakh to Rs 3 lakh.
One of the cases involved a boy named Haider who had been kidnapped from Mumbai last year. A missing complaint was filed by his father, Ahmed Yunus, at the Kotwali police station in Parbani district in February 2022. Other similar cases had been lodged between December 2021 and February 2022, but the police had been unable to find any leads.
Under pressure from the parents, the police initiated a fresh inquiry and discovered that the boy had gone missing from a local Urdu school. They questioned the teachers and found the calls of a teacher's sister to be suspicious. Further investigation revealed that the woman had been involved in the kidnapping and was in contact with a woman named Sangeeta from Gujarat, who lived in Hyderabad and was allegedly involved in a kidnapping racket operating across different states.
Sangeeta had met a woman named Shravani from Vijayawada, who worked in fertility centers in Hyderabad. Shravani used to identify women who donated eggs and those who were in need and then made deals while taking commission in advance. Sangeeta had told Shravani about the four kidnapped children and asked if anyone could raise them. Shravani decided to sell the children to childless couples.