"After Mumbai Mirror exposed the inhuman 'sale' of a two-month-old at Lal Batti in Byculla, Mumbai police have identified five more places in Mumbai -- at Lalbaug, Govandi, Kurla, Madanpura and Mumbra -- where children are sold by 'brokers' at throwaway prices.Meanwhile, the infant Asif who was ‘sold’ yesterday has been sent to the Children’s Remand Home at Dongri, and an NGO has already come forward to take care of him. A broker-woman at Lal Batti had on Friday 'sold' a two-month-old boy Asif to two Mumbai Mirror correspondents for Rs 12,000 and told them that children labelled as 'flop bachchas' because they were born of an illegitimate relationship were sold at the spot to any couple wxho wished to buy them. The police, who were informed of the 'sale' beforehand, told this paper that such illegal trade was also on at Qureish Nagar in Kurla (E), in a slum locality of plot no 41 at Baiganwadi of Govandi, in Mominpura at Madanpura near Byculla and at Rashid Compound in Mumbra. An assistant commissioner of police said: 'The selling of infants to willing couples, without going through adoption hassles and legal procedures, has been a business in some parts of the city for the last two years. It is the safest way of disposing of an unwanted child.'A senior doctor who did not wish to be named said the business had begun after some women from Mumbai's affluent areas, in order to keep their 'secrets', had given their new-born babies to their housemaids, cooks and even women at the local beauty parlour."
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