Hyderabad, March 10 (IANS) The Directorate of Enforcement’s (ED) Hyderabad Zonal Office has provisionally attached fifty immovable properties, valued at Rs 29.76 crore, under the provisions of the Prevention of Money Laundering Act in the illegal surrogacy racket case. The racket was run by Dr Pachipalli Namratha, alias Athluri Namratha, in the name of Universal Srusthi Fertility & Research Centre. The attached properties are in the form of land parcels, flats, as well as a hospital in the n…
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Ranchi, Feb 12 (IANS) The Jharkhand High Court, while hearing a habeas corpus petition concerning a minor girl missing from Gumla district since 2018, has directed the state and Central governments to consider framing a clear Standard Operating Procedure (SOP) on the use of Aadhaar data for identifying and tracing missing children.The petition was filed by the girl’s mother, seeking directions for her daughter’s recovery.During Thursday’s hearing, a division bench of Justice Sujit Narayan …
Ahmedabad, Feb 4 (IANS) The Ahmedabad Crime Branch, in a joint operation with Banaskantha Police, has arrested Yunus, identified as the suspected kingpin and main supplier in an organised child kidnapping and trafficking racket, officials said on Wednesday.The arrest is directly linked to the investigation into the trafficking of a 15-day-old infant rescued on January 29 and is being treated as a key development in the case.Speaking to IANS, a Crime Branch official said, “Yunus was apprehended f…
Chandigarh, Dec 29 (IANS) In a first-of-its-kind initiative in the country, Punjab has decided that if a child is found begging with an adult, a DNA test will be conducted to establish whether the accompanying person is the biological parent or not. As many as 807 children involved in begging have been rescued this year, and the government has initiated their rehabilitation.State Social Security, Women and Child Development Minister Baljit Kaur said child beggars are being rehabilitated under th…