Three more women have been detained in connection with the international child trafficking racket busted in North 24 Parganas district's Baduria area, a CID official said today.
"Three more women have been detained (by CID) for interrogation in connection with the Baduria case. We have got their names after interrogating those arrested from the locality. All these three women are linked to different nursing homes running in the metropolis" the IPS officer said.
Another highly placed source in the CID said that most of the questions asked to these women did not elicit satisfactory replies.
"Chances are quite high that they can be arrested... we are still interrogating them," he said.
Parmita Chatterjee of a nursing home in College Street area, Prabha Parmanik and Putul Banerjee of a nursing home in Behala have been detained for their alleged involvement in the trafficking case, he said.
Eight persons were arrested for their alleged involvement with the international racket of child trafficking following a CID raid at Baduria yesterday.
They were identified as -- Najma Bibi, Utpala Byapari, a quack Amirul Biswas, owner of a local nursing home Asadur Jaman, an NGO activist Satyajit Sinha, a clinic-owner Bakbul Baidya and lawyer Prabhat Sarkar along with his associate Jhantu Biswas.
Newborns were smuggled to other states and also overseas inside card board boxes meant for biscuit packaging.
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