A grandfather in India was arrested this
week after selling his newborn grandson
on Facebook.
Feroz Khan, 47, of Ludhiana city in the
northwestern state of Punjab, allegedly
kidnapped his daughter Noori's son from
the hospital shortly after he was born on
April 3, according to Punjab Newsline. He
told Noori that her son had died.
With the help of two temporary
employees at the hospital where his
daughter gave birth, Khan arranged a
deal on Facebook to sell his baby
grandson for 45,000 rupees ($830),
according to the Agence France-Presse.
The newborn baby was sold to Amit
Kumar of New Delhi, according to the
Telegraph. Noori filed a police report that
her son had been kidnapped.
"We acted upon the complaint of the
mother, who alleged that her child was
stolen from the nursing home in
Ludhiana," Ishwar Singh, Ludhiana's
Commissioner of Police, told the
Telegraph. "After investigations, we
found the grandfather of the child had
struck a deal with a man in Delhi and
had roped-in the nursing staff to smuggle
the baby out of the nursing home.
We
have arrested four people including the
grandfather. We have also booked the
buyer from Delhi."
Police found the baby at Facebook buyer
Kumar’s Ranjit Nagar home on Tuesday,
according to the Hindustan Times. The
baby was ill and undergoing treatment at
Sir Gangaram Hospital.
"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. The three face seven
years in jail if convicted for kidnapping.
Punjab Newsline reports that Khan
wanted his daughter, who divorced her
husband last year, to get an abortion
when she became pregnant. His plan to
sell the baby on Facebook was apparently
part of "a bid to facilitate the second
marriage of his daughter," according to
Punjab Newsline.
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