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The police action came after Chief Minister Hemant Soren took cognisance of the incident and ordered the cops to immediately rescue the boy.
Jharkhand couple sells baby boy due to poverty (AI-generated Image)
A month-old baby boy was allegedly sold by his parents for Rs 50,000 due to poverty; however, he was rescued by Jharkhand Police on Sunday, officials said.
The police action came after Chief Minister Hemant Soren took cognisance of the incident and ordered the cops to immediately rescue the boy.
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“A couple from Lesliganj area in Palamu district allegedly sold their son for Rs 50,000 due to extreme poverty,” Lesliganj Circle Officer Sunil Kumar Singh said.
As the matter came to the fore, the Palamu district administration reached out to the family and provided 20kg of foodgrain to them and launched efforts to enrol them under welfare schemes, the official said.
Ramchandra Ram, the father, told media that he had sold his son to a tout couple from a nearby village as he did not have money for living or to treat his wife, Pinki Devi, who had been unwell since giving birth to the child.
“I did not have money for her treatment or to arrange for food,” Ram said. He was a daily wage labourer who has been unemployed for the last few months due to incessant rainfall.
The middleman couple took to baby to Latehar district after the completion of payment.
“We are homeless and spend nights along with four other children of ours under a dilapidated shed,” Ram said.
Ram hails from Uttar Pradesh’s Mirzapur and has been living in Lotwa for around 15 years with his wife, who is a local. The couple worked as labourers and even begged in the village when they did not work, sources told news agency PTI.
The couple was deprived of the benefits of government schemes as they did not have Aadhaar or ration cards, they added.
Pinki Devi said that her father had given her a small piece of land and they had built a hut, which got damaged in rain.
“We were left with no other option but to live under the shed,” Ram said.
The woman had delivered the baby under the shed and had been sick since then.
A team of police was sent to Latehar to find the boy, who was later rescued on Sunday, Lesliganj police station officer-in-charge Uttam Kumar Rai said.
(With PTI inputs)
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