Hyderabad, June 10 -- A 12-day-old male infant with a physical disability was sold for Rs 1.70 lakh in an illegal transaction facilitated by two mediators, with police registering a Zero FIR at Kulsumpura Police Station on Monday, June 8, before transferring the case to Nandigama PS in Ranga Reddy district.

The infant was born on May 28 at Lakshmi Hospital, a private facility in Tukkuguda, to Mohan and his wife Sandhya.

According to a complaint filed by K Ramu, Protection Officer at the NIC-DCPU under the Women and Child Welfare Department, Hyderabad, the biological parents agreed to hand over the child to Padma Paltiya, a relative of the father, reportedly due to the infant's disability.

Padma and a Jiyaguda resident, Potharaju Suresh...