New Delhi, Oct. 31 -- The Delhi Police on Thursday said they safely rescued a 27-day-old infant who was allegedly kidnapped 22 days ago from a footpath under the Subhash Nagar Metro station in west Delhi by two minor boys and sold to a childless couple in Uttam Nagar for Rs.20,000 through a woman living in their neighbourhood.

Police said the infant was sleeping next to his parents, who are slum-dwellers, when two 16-year-old boys allegedly picked him up and fled on a stolen scooter. The childless couple, their neighbour were arrested and the two minors apprehended and booked for kidnapping and baby trafficking.

The couple was identified as 36-year-old Shubh Karan Yadav, a building painter, and his 27-year-old wife Sanyogita, a homemake...