Mumbai: Doctor Mumbai: Doctor tries to facilitatetries to facilitate illegal adoption of baby boy using fake documents; arrested

Mumbai: On Sunday, in a shocking incident, a Mumbai-based doctor held for forging papers to facilitate illegal adoption. As per the news agency report, the city police have arrested the doctor from the Shivaji Nagar area in Mumbai.

While commenting on the incident, Mumbai Police crime branch officials said that, "A probe zeroed in on a Shivaji Nagar based doctor, who had told the couple the child was born in his hospital, despite the birth taking place in Rajasthan," as quoted by the news agency PTI.

As per the report the officials claimed that the investigation had revealed that papers, including the baby boy's birth certificate, seem to be fake in this case.

The report further suggests that the doctor helped to make a fake birth certificate which points out that the boy was born in Mumbai, but the baby boy's birthplace is Rajasthan.

The official further reacted saying efforts are on to question the parents who adopted the child.

In the fake documentation process, the accused put in place a fake birth certificate of the child which reflected his birthplace in Mumbai, after which a Mumbai-based family adopted the child.

Crime Branch officials also added that the child is over two years old now and the case had been file in the recent past which created a dispute between the family that adopted the child and their kin.

The investigation revealed that the doctor had told the couple the child was born in his hospital.

The doctor has been granted bail by the court.