The V P Road police in south Mumbai have arrested 11 people, including three women, for their alleged involvement in a baby-selling racket. The police said Girgaum resident Anwari Abdul Rashid Sheikh, 50, had allowed a couple with a four-month-old girl to stay in her house about two-and-a-half months ago.

The couple identified themselves as Ibrahim and Sangeeta Chaubey and told the owner that they were in a live-in relationship. Sheikh took care of the baby when they were out for work. In December 2021, Chaubey left the house without informing the owner and never returned. After some time, Ibrahim took the baby out saying she needed polio doses. But neither of them came back.