India, Aug. 8 -- The police on Wednesday arrested two women and booked three others for allegedly selling an infant boy. Three of them are members of a gang that sells children and the other two are the parents of the child. The gang offers money to poor couples in exchange for their children and sells the babies at a higher price, said a police officer.

According to the police, the complainant, Mayuri Vannam, and her husband, Lakshminarayan Vannam, along with their aide, Binu Verghese, came to know about a person named Sameer, also known as Nabeel Shaikh, who allegedly sold children. In May, they met him at Lotus Junction in Shivaji Nagar and told him they wanted a child. They told the police about the gang, who laid a trap to expose th...