Child Trafficking Racket Busted By Rachakonda Police, Arrest 11, Rescue 4 Infants
Hyderabad: The Rachakonda police have busted an interstate child trafficking racket, arresting 11 people and rescuing four infants. The operation was carried out by the Special Operations Teams (SOT) from Malkajgiri and Chaitanyapuri, along with local police.
Who Was Arrested?
The arrested include Kola Krishnaveni, Battu Deepthi, Goutham Savithri Devi, Battu Sravan Kumar, Amgoth Sharada, and Budidhi Sampath Kumar—a ward boy at Gandhi Hospital. Police also caught the buyers: Oguti Naga Venkata Pavan Bhagavan and his wife, Teppala Vinay Kumar and his wife Teppala Swathi, and Lingala Ramesh.
How Did the Racket Work?
Krishnaveni, one of the key accused, was divorced because she couldn’t have children. She began looking for babies to adopt on social media and, in 2024, came in contact with a man named Manoj from Delhi. He offered to sell her a baby boy for ₹5 lakh. However, before the deal could happen, police arrested them in Gopalapuram.
Krishnaveni then started receiving offers for babies from her friends Deepthi and Sampath Kumar. Through social media, she connected with a woman named Vandana from Ahmedabad, Gujarat, who agreed to provide babies for ₹1.5 lakh per baby girl and ₹2.5 lakh per baby boy.
Vandana, with the help of two women, Sunitha and Savithri Devi, sent two baby boys and two baby girls from Gujarat to Hyderabad. Krishnaveni, along with her associates, then sold three of these infants in Andhra Pradesh and Telangana, charging buyers ₹2-3 lakh per baby girl and ₹4-5 lakh per baby boy. The money was then split among the group.
How Police Caught Them
On Tuesday, acting on a tip-off, the SOT Malkajgiri team and Chaitanyapuri police rushed to Chaitanyapuri bus stop, where they found Krishnaveni, Savithri Devi, and Sampath Kumar with an infant boy. Their behavior seemed suspicious, so police detained them. This led to the uncovering of the entire trafficking network.
The investigation is still ongoing, and police are trying to identify more people involved in the racket.
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