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  • February 11, 2025
Woman sells 30-day-old baby to pay husband’s loans in India

Woman sells 30-day-old baby to pay husband’s loans in India



A representative photo of a newborn child. — Reuters/file
A representative photo of a newborn child. — Reuters/file

In an unfortunate incident, an Indian woman sold her newborn baby to pay off her husband’s loans Economic times Wednesday, leading to her arrest and others involved.

The woman, 40, sold her 30-day-old baby for 150,000 Indian rupees. The incident took place in the Indian district of Ramanagara in the state of Karnataka.

However, the police later rescued the baby and placed him in a care home in Mandya after arresting the mother.

The woman’s husband had filed a missing person report two days after the baby went missing on December 7, suspecting his wife was involved in the disappearance of their newborn son.

The couple has five children and is struggling with mounting debts.

“I have loans of over INR300,000, and my wife suggested me a few days ago to sell our newborn baby to a childless couple for money to pay off our debts. But I flatly refused and told her never had to think like that.” the father told police.

The father said that after he returned home on December 5, he found his son missing.

“When I inquired, my wife told me that he had health problems and that she had sent him to a doctor with a family member. Believing that I was going to eat and sleep. The next morning I went to work and came back in the evening. But there was no trace of my son, and my wife repeated what she had said before.

“But this time I got suspicious and asked her to share the number of the doctor or the relative my son was with. But she refused and we attacked each other over the issue. I suffered a cut on my head,” said them. the husband.

The man then went to the police and filed a complaint, after which the mother was interrogated.

“She tried to mislead us by saying that the child was with her relative. When questioned further, she confessed that she had sold the baby to a single woman in Bengaluru for INR 150,000,” an investigating officer said.

Police subsequently recovered the child and arrested the mother, two other people involved in the sale of the baby and the woman who bought the child.