Inside Ahmedabad’s inter-state child trafficking racket

Shocking details have emerged from the investigation into the interstate child trafficking racket busted by the Ahmedabad Crime Branch ten days ago, revealing a well-organised and systematic network that treated newborns as commodities and operated on fixed commissions.

- FPJ News Service

According to investigators, the racket involved multiple layers of brokers, each assigned specific roles — from identifying childless couples desperate to adopt, to locating impoverished or coerced parents willing to sell their newborns, fixing prices, arranging transport across states, and even preparing bogus birth certificates with the help of compromised nursing homes.

The racket came to light when police intercepted a car near Kotarpur, close to Ahmedabad Airport, following a joint tip-off received by the Crime Branch and the Gujarat ATS. During the check, officers found a 15-day-old baby being transported from Himmatnagar to Hyderabad. Three accused — Roshan Agarwal of Hyderabad, Sumit Yadav from Uttar Pradesh, and Ahmedabad-based Vandana Panchal — were arrested on the spot.