Indian man held for selling baby grandson on Facebook
INDIA: Police in northern India said Wednesday they had arrested a
47-year-old man for selling his newborn grandson to a local businessman
in a deal that was struck on Facebook. Feroz Khan, a resident of
Ludhiana city in the northern state of Punjab 300 kilometres (200 miles)
from New Delhi, had allegedly kidnapped his grandson shortly after he
was born earlier this month.
Khan sought help from two temporary employees at a local hospital
where his daughter gave birth, who contacted the buyer on Facebook and
arranged the deal for 45,000 rupees ($830).
“All three people who conspired to sell the child have been arrested
and we will be interrogating the businessman who paid the money to buy
the baby,” Satish Malhotra, a senior police officer in Ludhiana, told
AFP.
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