Friends use infant to extort parents seeking to adopt

The Navghar police have arrested three people for extorting money from a 42yearold garage owner who was trying to adopt a threemonthold girl The childs mother is among the accused said copsA court in MiraBhayandar Vasai Virar MBVV remanded the 24yearold woman Alpesh Kachchiya 30 and Yash Hitesh Soni 25 in police custody on Monday Two other accused Manish Chaudhary and Rohit Sutar are at largeThe complainant lives in Bhayandar with his wife and their two sons aged 13 years and 12 years Police said he was looking to adopt a girl child as his wife had been sad about not having a daughter He had even registered with several adoption centres said a copThe child was born out of wedlock on November 29 Representation picIn December a friend of the complainant told him about Kachchiya who he said wanted to give his onemonthold daughter up for adoption because of his poor financial conditionKachchiya told him that his wife ran away with someone else after the child was born ldquoMy wife and I met Kachchiya near Bhayandar East railway station on December 28 and noticed the girl was ill We decided to adopt her and asked Kachchiya for documents the complainant saidKachchiya said that he couldnt afford her treatment and handed the child over to us We took her home as she was sick and then to a doctor he addedHowever Kachchiya started asking him for money to clear his debts claiming he had spent a lot on the girls treatment First he took Rs 1000 to clear dues at a pharmaceutical shop He came to my garage one evening asking for Rs 20000 I gave him the money considering his financial situation the complainant saidDespite asking repeatedly he did not give documents for adoption said the man adding that fourfive days later he returned He started crying and requested that I give his daughter back as he could not live without her he added He gave the girl back to KachchiyaAlso Read Mumbai Crime Rash driving cabbie kills woman in WadalaA few days later Soni came and offered to help make the adoption official if I cleared Kachchiyas debt of Rs 25 lakh On January 5 Kachchiya came with Soni Chaudhary Sutar and the child I gave them Rs 1 lakh But their demand started increasingThey started threatening to lodge a complaint of child theft if I didnt give them more money I immediately went to the police with the child he addedUnder the guidance of Deputy Commissioner of Police Jayant Bajbale Senior Inspector Milind Desai and Assistant Inspector Ganesh Kekan nabbed Kachchiya Soni and the womanPolice said that the infant was born out of wedlock on November 29 Kachchiya the mothers friend took the responsibility of raising the girl He and his friends then got the idea to make easy money by luring innocent people looking to adopt a child a cop saidPolice have sent the child to the Child Welfare Committee CWC Requesting anonymity a CWC official said the complainants method of adopting the child is illegal and that he should be booked tooThe Navghar police however said the probe so far shows the complainant has not committed any crime He wanted to adopt the child and had asked for the documents but the accused were demanding money and threatening to implicate him on false charges Nothing shows that the child was being bought an officer saidStandfirstKachchiya the mothers friend took the responsibility of raising the girl He and his friends then got the idea to make easy money by luring innocent people looking to adopt a child a cop said