Child selling racket case: Childless couples handover infants to Child Welfare officials
Hyderabad: Childless couple who had bought infants from human-traffickers handed over them to Women and Child Welfare Officials through police on Tuesday.
Many of them broke down at the Rachakonda Police Commissionerate in Neredmet in Hyderabad, saying that they had become extremely attached to infants. They pleaded with the officers to let them keep the children.
It was learnt that Rachakonda police busted a child selling racket and rescued 11 children in Hyderabad. They are from Delhi and Pune.
“We have been married for close to a decade. We had everything in our lives, but not a child. This girl came into our lives as hope for our future. Now everything is gone,” said a woman who had bought a two-and-a-half-year-old from human traffickers. The couple from Banjara Hills said that they bought the child when she was three days old.
In another case, a woman from Suryapet was seen pleading with the officers to let her keep the one-and-half-year old boy. The woman told the officers that she had already lost her husband and did not want to lose the boy. “First, I did not have a child. I got one with great difficulty. Even before that feeling of being a mother could sink in, I lost my husband. Now, I am losing my child as well. I do not have any purpose in life to live,” said the woman from Suryapet.
Another couple from Suryapet also had a similar tale. “We felt humiliated being childless for several years. This boy brought happiness,” expressed the woman.
Among those who came to the Commissionerate office with the children were from Lothukunta, BHEL, Cherlapally, Peerzadiguda and Gachibowli in the city, Suryapet district, and Vijayawada, Guntur and Srikakulam in Andhra Pradesh.
