Peshawar newborn kidnappings: Police arrest couple who sold infant
Police said that the couple is parents to an infant girl and sold her for 100,000 rupees
August 15, 2016
PESHAWAR: Police arrested on Monday a couple who sold their own newborn for 100,000 rupees in Peshawar.
Police said that the couple is parents to an infant girl and their arrest came during investigation of the case related to kidnapping of newborn babies from hospitals.
The parents of the baby girl will be presented before a court, police said, adding that the couple was arrested on a tip-off by under custody gang involved in Kidnappings.
The suspects denied the allegations.
“The lady doctor had assured us that good education would be given to the child,” the parents said.
Police on Friday had arrested a 7-member gang which kidnapped newborn babies from hospitals. At least five women and two men are part of the gang.
The gang would take away newborn babies and hand over dead babies to parents. The kidnapped babies were then sold for Rs70,000 to Rs300,000, SSP Abbas Marwat had said.
According to him, female doctors and nurses were also a part of the gang. The criminals had already sold nine babies and one baby was recovered by security forces.
