West Bengal child trafficking racket bust: Kolkata hospital owner held, total arrests 13
According to reports, owner of Shri Krishna Nursing Home, which is located in north Kolkata's Mahatma Gandhi Road (M. G. Road) area, Partha Chatterjee was arrested in the morning.
Earlier on Monday night, a CID team raided privately-run Sohan Nursing Home at Baduria area in North 24 Parganas district of West Bengal and after busting a child trafficking racket there, rescued three newborn babies, two out of which were placed in biscuit-packing case, from a damp room in the nursing home.
Eight persons, including the nursing home owner, were arrested that day and after interrogating them, the CID booked four more persons, including a 60-year-old doctor Santosh Kumar Samanta, administrator of M. G. Road's Shri Krishna Nursing Home Paramita Chatterjee and owners of South View Nursing Home in city's Behala area- Tutul Bagchhi and Probha Bhaumick, on Wednesday.
Meanwhile, Baduria's Sohan Nursing Home, which was the base of child trafficking operations, was being run without health department's authorisation and permission, according to an official of West Bengal health department.
However, CID sources said that several private hospitals in Kolkata and few doctors were under the state probe agency's scanner as a part of the ongoing investigation.
(Reporting by Deepayan Sinha)
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