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Police successful Maharashtra’s Thane person exposed a quality trafficking racket with the apprehension of 5 persons trying to merchantability a 7-day-old babe for ₹6 lakh, officials said connected Friday (December 26, 2025).
Acting connected inputs, the Anti-Human Trafficking Cell of the metropolis constabulary laid a trap adjacent a edifice successful the Badlapur West country connected Wednesday (December 24) night. They utilized a decoy purchaser to corroborate that a radical was so trying to merchantability a newborn, an authoritative said.
The pack was paid ₹20,000 via UPI arsenic token money, with the remaining equilibrium of ₹5.8 lakh to beryllium paid successful cash, helium said. After being alerted by the decoy customer, a constabulary squad reached the spot and arrested each 5 persons who had travel for the deal.
The accused person been identified arsenic Shankar Sambhaji Manohar (36), who accepted the cash, Reshma Shahabuddin Shaikh (35), who had got the baby, Igatpuri-based agents Nitin Sambhaji Manohar (33) and Shekar Ganesh Jadhav (35), and Asif Chand Khan (27), an cause based successful Mankhurd, Mumbai.
A sixth accomplice, identified arsenic Sabina, is connected the tally and constabulary are trying to hint her, helium said.
A elder authoritative from Badlapur (West) constabulary presumption said, “The pack had connived to merchantability the newborn for Rs 6 lakh. We fishy this is portion of a overmuch larger scam involving the kidnapping and merchantability of infants to childless couples. We are trying to place the biologic mother.”
The babe has been moved to a specialised attraction home. Police are besides investigating whether a wider web of hospitals oregon nursing homes is progressive successful supplying newborns to traffickers, helium added.
