Baby-seller no doctor, is a trafficker, say police

GHAZIABAD: The woman,who was arrested for selling a kidnapped 13-month-old boy for Rs 3 lakh is not a doctor as she claimed to her patients while “practising” in east Delhi, police said.
Anija Vij, who was arrested earlier this week from her flat in Patparganj, also revealed during interrogation that she had been involved in baby trade in the past.
The police suspect a larger child trafficking racket operational in Delhi and Ghaziabad following her confession. Vij, who was taken on police remand on Tuesday, has confessed to at least one instance of child trafficking she was involved in.
Ghaziabad SP (Rural) Rakesh Kumar Pandey told TOI, “It has emerged that the woman was not a doctor but a nurse. But now we are investigating whether she is even a qualified nurse.”
Pandey said that during interrogation she had revealed that four years ago she sold a child to the elder brother of Laxmi Nagar-based bakery owner Paras Jain. “We are investigating if that child had also been kidnapped from Ghaziabad. We are also trying to find out if she was involved in more incidents of child trafficking in Ghaziabad,” Pandey said.

The police did not reveal the names of the couple who had allegedly bought the child from Vij four years ago for security reasons. Police records are also being verified to ascertain if any kidnapping case had been registered in Ghaziabad regarding the child whose description has been given by Vij.

Vij was arrested by Ghaziabad police on September 11 for allegedly buying 13-month-old Yash from his kidnappers for Rs 70,000 and later selling the boy to a bakery owner in Delhi for Rs 3 lakh. The kid was rescued by police on September 12 from the bakery owner’s house in Laxmi Nagar.

The bakery owner, Paras Jain (30), was arrested but his wife, Archana (27), is at large.
Paras and Archana had been consulting Dr Vij for the past few years because of their inability to conceive a child. According to police, Dr Vij had bought Yash from an Ola cab driver, Chandvir (30) and his wife Poonam (28) at around 6 pm on September 10 after paying them Rs 70,000 in cash. Chandvir lives with his wife in a rented house in Gagan Vihar area of Ghaziabad.