India, Nov. 17 -- The Shivaji Nagar police have booked a doctor and four others attached to a Govandi hospital for allegedly attempting to sell a newborn boy for Rs.5 lakh. The case surfaced on Saturday after a tip-off prompted police to raid the hospital.

According to investigators, Dr Qayamuddin Khan and hospital staff manager Anita Popat Sawant allegedly conspired to conduct the delivery of a 20-year-old unmarried woman, known to Dr Khan, without completing mandatory medical or legal procedures. The woman, eight months pregnant at the time, delivered the baby at the hospital, following which the accused allegedly ensured no documentation was filed.

Police said the woman abandoned the child soon after birth. Dr Khan and Sawant then al...