Police arrested two women from Sihani Gate area of Ghaziabad for stealing and selling a four-month-old boy from Aligarh on May 17.

The accused, Hemlata (25) and Anita (26), are residents of Bulandshahr’s Daulatpur village, reported The Times of India.

At present, one of the accused, Anita lives with her husband at Bhatta Number 5 area near Raj Nagar Extension.

Police said that Hemlata stole the baby from Aligarh on May 17 from near the gate of district jail where she had gone to meet her husband Ashok Kumar who is lodged there under the Gangsters Act.

Police informed that Hemlata needed money to pay for her husband's bail, and that drove her to steal the infant and sell it to Anita for Rs 50, 000.

She needed the money to pay her husband’s bail, so she stole the child and sold it to Anita for Rs 50,000. Following a tip-off, the child was recovered from Bhatta number 5 from Anita’s possession, said SHO (Sihani Gate) Sanjay Kumar Pandey as reported by The Times of India.

Both the arrested women are in police custody now.

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