Church Priest held as cops bust child trafficking racket
A Chennai-based gang of child traffickers, led by a church priest, which was abducting babies in western Tamil Nadu and selling them, has been nabbed. While Father Alphonse was picked up from his church at Padappai on Thursday, two self-proclaimed social workers, Girija and Rani, were arrested from Perambur the same day.
The Krishnagiri police zeroed in on the child trafficking racket following the arrest of Dhanalakshmi, who had disappeared with a three-month-old baby from the Government General Hospital in Krishnagiri on May 18. During interrogation , she revealed details of a major kidnapping racket operating from Chennai. She told police that two “social workers,” Girija and Rani, from Perambur had hired her to abduct babies. When police nabbed Girija and Rani, the trail led to the kingpin Alphonse, who runs a church at Padappai, on the outskirts of Chennai, and heads an outfit, ‘Rajareega Makkal Katchi’ . READ MORE
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