Overview
- The Crime Branch and Gujarat ATS intercepted a car near Kotarpur after ATS intelligence, finding a newborn arriving from Himmatnagar.
- Three suspects — Vandana Panchal, Roshan alias Sajjan Agrawal and Sumit Yadav — were arrested, and driver Maulik Dave was detained for questioning.
- Police say the accused admitted buying the baby near Himmatnagar for Rs 3.6 lakh from Munna alias Yunus and planned to sell the child in Hyderabad to an agent named Nagraj.
- Investigators seized cash, four mobile phones and the Maruti Ertiga, and registered cases under BNS provisions on trafficking, kidnapping and conspiracy, plus Juvenile Justice Act sections on sale and procurement of children.
- Multiple teams are tracing absconding middlemen Yunus and Nagraj, probing links to earlier Hyderabad cases involving two of the accused and examining sourcing of newborns from Sabarkantha and Banaskantha, including alleged markups from about Rs 60,000.