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Six more infants rescued in AP

As wider dimensions of the child adoption racket unfolded in Andhra Pradesh, six more infants were rescued in a fresh police raid on a private house in Hyderabad and six persons were arrested Tuesday, taking the total number of children rescued since last week to 100.

The arrested persons belonged to Tandur-based John Abraham Memorial Bethany Home, from where 60 female infants were rescued last Saturday, police said.

Acting on a tip-off that the orphanage had shifted some of its inmates to the city and kept them in a rented house at Chintalbasti area ever since the crackdown started, the police raided the home and rescued six girls.

The girls, suffering from symptoms of malnutrition and dehydration, have since been shifted to Niloufer Children's Hospital where 19 infants are already undergoing treatment.

The arrest of six persons from the raided house, believed to be the staffers of Bethany orphanage, might provide vital clues that might lead to the arrest of its owner Savithri who is still at large and carrying a reward of Rs 100,000 on her head, the director of the state women development and child welfare department Shalini Misra told PTI.

The kingpin of the alleged child adoption racket and director of the city-based Action for Social Development N Sanjeeva Rao, who was arrested on Sunday night, was produced before a Hyderabad city court Tuesday and remanded to judicial custody.

Meanwhile, a fake adoption centre 'Precious Moments' at Miyapur in neighbouring Ranga Reddy district was raided Tuesday evening, official sources said.

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