The new Chief Minister of Uttar Pradesh, Akhilesh Yadav took note of the investigation and instructed the district administration to probe the matter. The team immediately carried out investigations which led to FIRs being filed against the seven hospital employees who were caught on camera.
A CNN-IBN and Cobra Post expose on babies for sale featured an undercover reporter, acting as a childless parent, walking around the government hospital in Amroha in Western UP, asking if it was possible for him to ‘buy’ a fair baby girl or boy. A nurse told him that if he had come three to four months ago she would have been able to give him a “beautiful fair baby girl’, while an aayah advised him not to offer too much money because after all, the baby he will be buying is likely to be a poor man’s child. “Get around ten to fifteen thousand. That will be enough”, she said.
There is a possibility that more officials may be involved in this shocking racket. The investigations from the government are still on and it is likely that more arrests will take place soon.
—Source: Firstpost