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Delhi: Four Arrested For Child Trafficking

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New Delhi: Delhi Police has busted a gang allegedly involved in child trafficking. Police laid a trap, they were presented as cheating customers by the police team, and arrested four accused. The police officer said that this gang was involved in the trafficking of many children.

As per the police reports, this gang members used to buy children from financially poor families and sell them to a childless couple for a huge amount. On probing the matter, photographs of minor children were found from the mobile phone of the accused, by police.

DCP North Sagar Singh Kalsi told that he had received secret information that a member of the gang was coming to sell a child. At the same time, he told that after this a trap was laid and 4 people were arrested from the spot. However, a seven-eight-month-old baby has been recovered from them.

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