Rs 1.5 lakh for one-month-old baby: Two women accused in kidnapping denied bail

The Telangana High Court has rejected bail for two women accused of kidnapping and trafficking a one-month-old baby, alleging the buyer offered Rs 1.5 lakh for the infant. Justice B R Madhusudhan stated that the case involved serious allegations of child trafficking and kidnapping of an infant. The court noted that the alleged buyer had transferred the agreed upon amount to another accused through different bank accounts.

Both women were booked for kidnapping and child trafficking under the Bharatiya Nyaya Sanhita (BNS) and other offences under the Juvenile Justice Act. The court heard a bail plea from the two women involved in the alleged child trafficking case. The mother of the baby reported the kidnapping on June 30, stating she was sleeping on the roadside with her husband and one-month-old baby when two unknown people kidnapped her child and fled in a green auto-rickshaw.

Police apprehended five accused individuals and used CCTV footage to identify their vehicle. The remand report revealed that the two women allegedly sent photographs of the baby on WhatsApp to an unknown woman after hearing the woman's reactions to the photos. The court dismissed the women's bail petition, noting the serious allegations against them in the remand report.