Two of the six arrested women had been involved in surrogacy and egg donations. One is a security guard at a government hospital. In two separate cases, crime branch arrested a man and a woman for purchasing two infants. The two rescued boys are now with the child welfare committee.

Mumbai: The Mumbai crime branch have busted a child trafficking racket, running in the name of adoption. Two boys, 3 years old and 4 months old, sold earlier were also rescued.

According to the police, two of the six arrested women had been involved in surrogacy and egg donations. One is a security guard at a government hospital. In two separate cases, crime branch arrested a man and a woman for purchasing two infants. The two rescued boys are now with the child welfare committee. The gang has been active for the last several years. Chances are they might have sold over two boys, said police.

The arrested gang members have been identified as, Asha alias Lalita Danny Joseph, 35, Bhagyashri Koli, 26, Sunita Masane, 30, and Savita Chavhan, 30. Police have also arrested Amar Desai, 30, and Bhagyashree Kadam, 48, for purchasing a boy.

Police said on a tip-off recently that a gang in Govandi was running a child trafficking racket in the name of the adoption, the Crime Branch unit 6 launched a probe. Gang’s modus operandi was such they would buy infant boys from the poor parents in need of money and sell them off to the richer couples. During the probe, the sleuths came across a woman, who admitted to selling her infant for Rs 1,00,000.

MUMBAI: Busting a gang linked to a child trafficking case unearthed in 2017, the city crime branch has arrested a private

hospital coordinator-cum owner of an IVF consultancy firm along with three others for selling baby

(https://timesofindia.indiatimes.com/topic/selling-baby) boys of poor couples for as high as Rs 5 lakh. Another woman accused

is a security guard at a government hospital.

The crime branch also rescued two three-month-old boys sold to two couples in Kalyan and identified two more boys illegally

He knowingly violated CARA guideline and JJ Act: Journalist who accused filmmaker Vinod Kapri of faking an adoption story for self promotion

CARA CEO had tweeted back on June 16 itself that the story of the couple having 'adopted' the infant child was fake and that after due legal procedure the child will be rehabilitated to the couples already registered with CARA.

Journalist Abhishek Upadhyay who had accused filmmaker Vinod Kapri of faking an adoption story for self-promotion has now claimed that Kapri violated the CARA (Central Adoption Resource Authority) guidelines and the Juvenile Justice Act (JJ Act) while tweeting the updates about the girl child. He shared a tweet of CEO of CARA, the central adoption agency, who had tweeted back on June 16 itself that the story of Kapri having ‘adopted’ the child is fake.

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A single woman of French origin, who is a psychologist, proved to be an angel in disguise for a seven-year-old abandoned girl, who was living at a child protection unit. The woman adopted the child last year.

Accused supplied boys to couples without children, with daughters but no sons

The Mumbai Police Crime Branch has busted a racket that allegedly supplied boys to couples without children, and to those who had several daughters but no sons.

According to Crime Branch officials, the lid was blown off the racket after police inspector Chandrakant Dalvi from the Crime Branch Unit VI received a tip-off earlier this year. He learnt that a family from Mankhurd had recently sold their newborn son to the gang. A team of Unit VI personnel then worked on the information for nearly two months before picking up Bhagyashree Koli, who runs a surrogacy centre in Mumbai’s eastern suburbs.

Babies for sale

A Crime Branch officer said, “Our information indicated that Ms. Koli had facilitated the sale of a six-day-old boy to a couple in Bhiwandi who had no sons. We questioned her and she ultimately confessed that she had sold one such boy in March.”

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Adoption tourism to Sri Lanka

During the early 1980s, I was adopted from an orphanage in Sri Lanka. No adoption organization was involved in the mediation of the adoption. I was adopted privately or informally by my Swedish adoptive parents.

My adoptive mother's brother worked in the tourism industry in Sri Lanka and conveyed the contact between my adoptive parents and a local couple who handled overseas adoptions. The couple found children for tourists who wanted to adopt and assist with the legalization of the adoption. They facilitated the adoption process and realized thousands of charter tourists' family formation projects.

The fact that Swedish charter tourists adopted informally during this time has been discussed and accounted for in several contexts in both Sweden and Sri Lanka. A Swedish social worker who has reasoned about a reason why Swedes adopted informally means that the waiting times for adopting were long in Sweden. In the late 1970s, for example, an adoption organization had waiting times of 3-4 years. Hence, the social worker believes that it became understandable that those who wanted to become adoptive parents chose informal ways to form their family.

The first so-called long-haul flights from Sweden went to Sri Lanka and the Gambia as early as 1971. The countries were marketed as relatively cheap destinations far away from Sweden. The marketing was aimed at Swedes who were at a normal income level with capital to spend and time to spare for a trip.

In one case, the accused women had promised a victim to make arrangements for meeting her son whenever she wished, the police officer said.

MUMBAI: Police Monday claimed to have busted a baby-selling racket in Mumbai with the arrest of five persons, including four women, who were allegedly involved in selling children for Rs 2 lakh to Rs 4 lakh each under the garb of adoption.

The Crime Branch of the city police busted the thriving racket late last week, an officer said. Acting on specific information, Unit 6 of the Crime Branch raided a house at Sathe Nagar in Mankhurd and picked up a woman for questioning, said Akbar Pathan, Deputy Commissioner of Police (Detection-1).

On information provided by her, the police detained two more women from the same area who were allegedly involved in the baby-selling ring, he said.

The role of another woman came to light later, he said. Accordingly to the police, these women would approach new mothers from economically weaker sections and offer to facilitate "adoption" of their newborn babies for a price that ranged from Rs 2 lakh to Rs 4 lakh each child, he said.

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In the early 1980s, I was adopted from an orphanage in Sri Lanka. No adoption organization was involved in the mediation of the adoption. I was adopted privately or informally by my Swedish adoptive parents.

My adoptive mother's brother worked in the tourism industry in Sri Lanka and mediated the contact between my adoptive parents and a local couple who handled adoptions abroad. The couple found children for tourists who wanted to adopt and assisted with the legalization of the adoption. They facilitated the adoption process and realized the family formation projects of thousands of charter tourists.

That Swedish charter tourists in particular adopted informally during this time has been discussed and reported in several contexts in both Sweden and Sri Lanka. A Swedish social worker who has reasoned about a reason why Swedes adopted informally believes that the waiting times for adoption were long in Sweden. In the late 1970s, for example, an adoption organization had waiting times of 3-4 years. From this, the social worker believes that it became understandable that those who wanted to become adoptive parents chose informal paths to form their family.

The first so-called long-haul flights from Sweden went to Sri Lanka and Gambia as early as 1971. The countries were marketed as relatively cheap destinations far away in relation to Sweden. The marketing was aimed at Swedes who were at a normal income level with capital to spend and time to spare for a trip.

The tour operators 'travel catalogs offer an opportunity to get closer to a motive for many Swedish charter tourists adopting children during their holiday stay in Sri Lanka and an understanding of the Swedish tourists' expectations of the country. One theme that went through the marketing was that Sri Lanka was presented as different in comparison with Sweden.