Hyderabad: Police rescued three abducted babies including a month-old girl in Andhra Pradesh. Special teams of Hyderabad Police on Wednesday arrested seven people allegedly involved in trafficking of children. The gang was nabbed from different parts of Andhra Pradesh.
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Prime accused V Gangadhar Reddy along with six others, including four women, were nabbed from different parts of Andhra Pradesh by special teams of Hyderabad Police and based on their information three babies were rescued, they said. The police revealed that the babies were abducted between October 2018 and March this year and were sold in the range of Rs 2.5 lakh to Rs 3.10 lakh. Apart from the infant girl, the two children were boys between two and two-and-a-half-years-old, police said.
According to Chandrayangutta Police Station Inspector G Koteshwar Rao, the accused were abducting minor children and selling them to childless couples. The rescued babies were handed over to their family members. The police are on the hunt to nab the other accused, who absconded.
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