‘Trafficking gang sold infants to Raj street performers’

Gurgaon: A day after cops arrested two more members of the child trafficking gang, investigators said on Monday that it bought newborns from couples from humble backgrounds and sold the infants to a community of street performers in Rajasthan for Rs 1.5 lakh (girls) to Rs 4 lakh (boys).

The community members, police said, would train the children from an early age for street performances like walking on the rope. The girls, after a certain age, were sold to people as brides. This was revealed by the gang leader after his arrest by the police.

On Sunday, cops nabbed Kulwant Singh from Delhi and Anil from Alwar in Rajasthan, bringing the total number of arrests to 11. Kulwant, the investigators said, was the mastermind of the gang while Anil was responsible for arranging possible clients for the infants.

To date, police have recovered three infants, two girls barely a month-old and a four-month-old boy. “We are trying to find out details of children sold,” said ACP (crime) Preet Pal Sangwan. “The gang members, during interrogation, told us they used to sell the infants to a community of street performers in Rajasthan.”

Cops said many more members of the gang are still at large. The accused, during interrogation, told cops that they had no knowledge of the current locations of the children sold by them.

The gang was busted on January 8 when a suspicious cab driver from the city drove straight to the DLF-3 police station and helped arrest two women and a man who had stolen two infants and were planning to sell them to childless couples.

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