Few day after the baby-selling racket in West Bengal was busted, police are also dealing with desperate pleas from families who feel their children are still alive in addition to their ongoing investigations of nailing the culprits.
One such person, Reshma Bibi, wants the police to find her daughter’s baby who was born seven months ago at Sohan Nursing Home in North 24 Parganas’ Baduria, which the Central Bureau of Investigation or CBI raided earlier this week to blow the lid of the conspiracy.
“I feel my daughter’s baby is alive. We want the baby back,” Reshma Bibi told reporters.
“After the delivery, they said the child was dead and returned the body. My husband insisted the child had not died but they repeated that it had died. When my husband threatened to go to the police, they called goons and threatened us,” she added.
Her family finally approached the police after the West Bengal police raided the nursing home. Reshma Bibi’s husband told investigators he saw a lady taking away with a biscuit carton after the nursing home claimed his daughter had delivered a stillborn baby.
The family added that they were also given some money for their sick daughter’s treatment which, they now suspect, was done to coerce them and convince them to not approach the police.
Reshma Bibi’s son, Raju Hossain, told NDTV, “I think this was a pre-planned conspiracy as they were involved in selling babies. We want the baby and proper punishment for these people.”
Two more arrests were made on Sunday including a doctor named Tapan Biswas, suspected to be one of the main accused. Biswas had evaded arrest since the raid.
The police say investigations are on and they hope to trace at least some of the babies that have been sold in this racket. Investigators suspect the masterminds may have international links.
