Two-month-old rescued in suspected child trafficking case

Ludhiana | Tuesday | 15th January, 2019

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She said they immediately got in touch with the district police and constituted a joint team, which went to Samana and contacted the accused. She claimed since the family could not afford to bring up the child, they had given her for adoption.However, she could not produce any documents to corroborate her facts or call the biological parents of the girl. He said while the girl’s biological parents had not yet been traced, but they would investigate the matter further before a case is registered in this regard.Meanwhile, Baljit contended that if Gurpreet was not hiding anything, why she kept changing the venue of their meeting. PATIALA: In a suspected case of child trafficking Childline NGO's team of the district on Monday recovered a 2-month-old girl from a 28-year-old woman in Samana, who was allegedly trying to sell her.District coordinator of ChildLine, Baljit Kaur, said they had received a tip-off on Monday morning that a woman named Gurpreet Kaur was trying to sell a 2-month-old girl. “The manner in which she was acting caused suspicion and the fact that the girl’s biological parents have not yet been traced and there were no documents to support the adoption claims being made by her were ground enough to prove that the girl was being trafficked,” she said..