The Thane police have arrested a couple for attempting to sell their five-month-old boy for Rs 90,000. Police said the father, an auto driver, was struggling to feed his six children as he wasn’t earning enough due to the pandemic. A woman, who was helping them, was also arrested and a probe is underway into illegal adoptions she facilitated in the past.

Woman was trying to sell the boy for Rs 1.7 lakh. Representation pic