Updated On: 19 September, 2024 07:55 AM IST | Mumbai | Faisal Tandel
A Child Welfare Committee official said the doctor offered to waive hospital bill and sponsor the education of the couple’s two children in exchange for their newborn

The baby at the Ganpati Nursing Home, Ambivli, Kalyan. Pics/Navneet Barhate
The Khadakpada police in Kalyan have booked a doctor from a nursing home in Ambivli, Kalyan, for his alleged involvement in illegal adoption and sale of a child. The police said the woman who is visually challenged had two kids and got pregnant for the third time. As the pregnancy was unplanned the couple decided to go for an abortion. But as the woman was in the stage of pregnancy where abortion could not be done, the doctor suggested that the woman give birth and hand over the child to him. In return, he said the hospital would waive delivery charges as well as fund the education of their other two children.

The baby’s parents