Truck driver from AP held in child trafficking case
Coimbatore: The Karumathampatti all-woman police on Wednesday evening arrested a 54-year-old man in Andhra Pradesh for ‘buying’ a seven-day-old baby boy from a child trafficking racket operating out of Bihar. With this, the number of arrested people in connection with the case has gone up to six.
An investigation officer identified the arrested person as S Srirama Chandra Murthy Devarasetti, a truck driver from Indiramma Colony at Devarapalli in Godavari in Andhra Pradesh.
On Thursday, he was produced before a judicial magistrate, who remanded him in judicial custody. He was later lodged in the Coimbatore Central Prison.
The officer said the truck driver had bought the baby boy from a Bihar-based couple, who were running a hotel in Coimbatore, for 2.5 lakh.
According to the officer, H Neha Kumari and her mother H Poonam Devi, of Darbhanga district in Bihar, had kidnapped a baby girl and a baby boy from their state and handed them over to M Maheshkumar, 34, and his wife Anjalikumari, 24, a couple from Bihar who were running a hotel at Appanaickenpatti near Sulur.
“The couple sold the baby girl to D Vijayan, 48, a farmer from Thimmanaickenpalayam in Sulur for 2.5 lakh and the baby boy to the truck driver in Andhra Pradesh for the same amount. We have rescued both the babies,” the officer said.
She said they had earlier arrested Mahesh, Anjali, Vijayan, Neha Kumari and Poonam Devi, who were booked under Section 370 of the Indian Penal Code and Section 81 of the Juvenile Justice (Care and Protection of Children) Act, in connection with the case. They too were lodged in jail under judicial custody.
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