Kolkata Police Bust Child Trafficking Ring with 100+ Surrogate Moms Involved

Raid and search activities have been carried out at the aforementioned IVF center, which is located in Anandapur in the southern suburbs of Kolkata.

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On Saturday, the Kolkata Police allegedly arrested a child trafficking ring including 100 surrogate mothers and hundreds of agents and sub-agents. The authorities apprehended one of the main brains behind this scheme, Mamata Patra, and also discovered the involvement of a popular In Vitro Fertilization (IVF) center in the racket.

The aforementioned IVF center, which is located in Anandapur on Kolkata's southern outskirts, has been raided and searched.

Cops discovered this scam while investigating a case in which a mother, Rupali Mondal, was arrested on August 1 for attempting to sell her child to another woman, Kalyani Guha.

Modal and Guha were both apprehended by cops from the city police. "Later, as our sleuths dug deeper into the integration, they discovered the major racket." When a couple contacted the IVF center because they were unable to have a child through normal means, the staff would call Mamata Patra, who would promise the couple a child within an acceptable time frame.

Meanwhile, Patra would contact any woman from a financially disadvantaged part through her agent network by offering a womb for anywhere from Rs 40,000 and Rs 50,000 to purchase their home.

"After the baby was born, it was given to the couple for an amount ranging from Rs 4,00,000 to Rs 4,50,000," stated a city police official on the condition of anonymity.

He claimed that Patra had lately rented her womb and made a tidy profit by selling the infant born from it. "The IVF center under scanner was also the surrogacy location in her case." "We are now attempting to locate that specific newborn," said a local police official. It is not entirely out that certain IVF professionals will be involved in the case.

Jaideb Chowdhury (father) and Sathi Chowdhury (mother) were detained earlier on July 23 by officers from the Khardah Police station in the state's North 24 Parganas division for selling their own child to buy booze. The child's grandfather, Kanai Chowdhury, was also arrested.

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