Seven, including four women arrested in Andhra Pradesh for kidnapping

Seven gang members allegedly involved in kidnapping and selling children were arrested and three babies were rescued from buyers, including a month-old girl, police said on Wednesday.

Prime accused V Gangadhar Reddy and six others, including four women, were nabbed by special Hyderabad Police teams from various parts of Andhra Pradesh and three babies were rescued based on their information, they said. The two kids were boys between two and two-and-a-half-year-olds apart from the infant girl, police said.

Between October 2018 and March this year, the accused kidnapped the three babies from different parts of Hyderabad and Guntur district in Andhra Pradesh and the babies were sold to Rs 3.10 lakh in the range of Rs 2.5 lakh, police said.

According to Chandrayangutta Police Station Inspector G Koteshwar Rao, the accused were kidnapping the minor children and selling them to needy childless couples.