Illegal nursing home busted, 5 held

  • | Monday | 17th December, 2018

Cops said traffickers would also convince unmarried mothers and poor parents to sell the newborns using fake documents. “This nursing home has been running without registration since 2016. The facility itself was being run illegally. We are looking for others who would issue documents , legitimizing the adoption of newborns from unmarriedmothers. We came to know that the authorities didn’t renew the registration after 2016.

KOLKATA: The arrest of five persons, including a nursing home owner, a quack and a couple at Ashokenagar in North 24 Parganas on Saturday, revealed that the facility had beenrunning without papers and was a hub for trafficking Police on Sunday said the racket was being run at Banani Nursing Home for over three years. The facility itself was being run illegally. “This nursing home has been running without registration since 2016. We are looking for others who would issue documents , legitimizing the adoption of newborns from unmarriedmothers. These women were persuaded to give birth and sell the babies,” an officer said.Chairman of Ashokenagar-Kalayangarh Municipality Probodh Sarkar, however, said, “We have no information about such illegal activities. We came to know that the authorities didn’t renew the registration after 2016. We are looking into the matter.”The racket came to light on Friday when Goutam Chandra and his wife Dipa took ‘their’ child to Habra State General Hospital for treatment, but could not produce documents of the child. Cops said traffickers would also convince unmarried mothers and poor parents to sell the newborns using fake documents.

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