NEW DELHI, India - A large-scale baby-selling racket thrives across several states of India — young children are sold like commodities for anything between Rs1,000 to Rs500,000 to affluent childless couples deprived of joys of natural parenthood or to those wanting to avoid the hassles of the long-winded legal adoption process.“In effect, baby-selling is the practice of selling children, usually by parents, close persons, or subsequent masters or custodians. Pay the cash and take the baby home. It is as simple as that and as instant as that.
- By doing this, one can bypass the interminable waits and the extensive documentation required to establish credentials and financial status of the parents.
- All one need do is produce an identity proof and the alleged racketeers hand over the child along with the birth certificate with your name on it,” Telangana Rashtra Samithi (TRS) Member of Parliament (MP) and film actress Vijayashanti told Gulf News.
- The babies are procured from marginalised couples, who willingly or perforce, sell their offspring for a few hundred or thousand rupees. At times, the promise of regular meals is enough to induce the women into making reproduction their business.
According to a recent news website expose, the doctors and nurses in some government hospitals of Uttar Pradesh are openly selling newborn babies from poor families for approximately Rs40,000. They claimed that there was a high demand for baby boys in particular.
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