Chennai: Based on the order issued by Director General of Police (DGP) T K Rajendran, the probe into trafficking of newborns by a retired government nurse in Namakkal district has been transferred to the Crime Branch-CID wing.
The retired nurse, who has been involved in stealing and selling newborns for 30 years, her husband and an ambulance driver and some others were earlier arrested in connection to this case.
An audio surfaced on social media that gave way to unearth the trafficking case. After the audio clip went viral, Tamilnadu Health Secretary Beela Rajesh had instructed the director of the Health and Rural Welfare Department to look into the claim.
Investigations revealed that a retired nurse Amudhavalli, with the aid of her husband, Ravichandran, who works as an assistant at Rasipuram Cooperative society, were involved in selling the babies acquiring from below poverty line couples.
A total of 14 infants were sold by them. Soon after the inquiry, they were detained by the cops. The inquiry further revealed that Murugesan, an ambulance driver attached to Kollimalai Primary Health Centre, private nurses Parveen, Haseena, Nisha, Arulsami brokered the deal who were also arrested. Police is also tracing the couple who bought the infants.