Five persons, including three women, were arrested from Manmad near here for allegedly selling a new-born baby girl, police said today.
The five accused were nabbed yesterday by Manmad Police in the district and were produced before a local court, which remanded them in three days police custody.
According to the complaint lodged by Sunita Pawar, mother of the 22-day-old baby and a resident of Ahmednagar district, four of the accused told her that she would not be able to take care of her daughter due to her poor financial condition and convinced her to give away her baby for adoption to a woman - Ashwini Khairnar - who lives in Manmad.
When Sunita, along with the four persons, visited Khairnar's place in Manmad, she saw her daughter being sold for Rs 60,000, following which she lodged a complaint with the local police, Manmad police station sub-inspector Dhirendra Singh Bilwal said.
The accused were identified as -- Bhausaheb Maruti Godse (69), Kusum Kharat (50), Terija Khatarnavre (42), Swapnil Paraj Dhavare (26), and Ashwini Khairnar (age not mentioned), he said.
Alleging utter negligence of part of the hospital and
seeking justice the parents have written to West Bengal Chief Minister Mamata Banerjee.
"We want the culprits to be punished whose fault cost the life of our baby. We are not rich but we have been trying to save our baby. We seek justice from our Chief Minister Mamata Banerjee," the mother said.
The parents lodged a complaint against hospital authorities under sections 120(B) (Punishment of criminal conspiracy), 304 (Punishment for culpable homicide not amounting to murder) and 212 (Harbouring offender) of IPC at the Shakespeare Sarani Police Station.
