Ludhiana April 24:
In a shocking incident of child-related crimes, police have found a series of events that eventually saw a newborn sold in the social networking website Facebook to eight thousand rupees RS.
Ludhiana's baby was snatched from his mother by his maternal grandfather, telling him that it was a dead baby. He reportedly sold it for $ 45,000 to a nurse at the hospital where he attended the birth. The nurse then allegedly sold the baby for Rs three thousand rupees a laboratory assistant in the same hospital, Gurpreet Singh, police said. According to reports, both worked at Satyam Hospital Ludhiana.
Gurpreet was then put the baby for sale on Facebook. According to reports, one of the friends of Gurpreet on Facebook in Delhi offered to pay Rs eight thousand rupees. The child's mother was sure that his son was alive and filed a police complaint against his father and his assistants. On the basis of the complaint, the police managed to locate the child and arrested the baby's grandfather and others involved in the heinous crime. However, the Delhi businessman who bought the baby is in operation.