NAVI MUMBAI: The NRI coastal police have arrested a 33-year-old woman, residing in a chawl near Mhada colony in Malad for illegally selling a 10-day-old new-born baby girl for Rs 2.50 lakhs, through four mediators, who have also been arrested after laying a trap in Nerul.
Ravindra Patil, Senior Inspector of NRI coastal police station said, “Accused Zarina Shaikh has claimed that she gave birth to the infant girl about 10 days ago at a hospital in Kalyan. A constable has been sent to that hospital to ascertain whether she is the mother of the infant.”
Patil said, “An Ulwe resident, Amruta Shaikh , had lodged a police complaint against a couple, Jyoti and her husband Sharukh Khan, who had approached her to sell the infant for Rs 2.50 lakhs. The couple contacted two more mediators Anita Shoshte and her son Shubham Shoshte, and through them they contacted accused.” The infant has been kept with ‘her mother’ Zarina Shaikh who attempted to sell the infant born out of her live-in relationship with another man, said police.
