Aditya Mehta / CNN-IBN
Published on Fri, Jun 23, 2006 at 17:40, Updated on Sat, Jun 24, 2006 at 19:20 in India section
Maharashtra: Touts of adoption agencies love to tour villages in Maharashtra. Here babies from poor families and from unwed mothers can be bought cheap and then sold at adoption homes as orphans.
"In rural areas in particular, the chances of this happening is quite high. Babies can be found in certain villages in the eight districts of Marathwada and Jalgaon," says Chairman Child Welfare Committee (CWC) Aurangabad, Dr Wankhede.
The CWC in Aurangabad gets approximately 40 abandoned children annually.
CWC member from Solapur Devayani Tumma often gets calls from adoption agencies making a sales pitch for abandoned children. “Adoption agencies call us and tell us to send the babies to their institutions,” she says.
However, social workers from adoption homes often bypass the committee and go scouting for couples willing to sell children....
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