NEW DELHI: Women who couldn’t conceive became mothers overnight after a brief stay in hospital. Childless couples returned home with their ‘natural children’ meeting their preferences of sex and colour. Becoming a parent was so easy after you registered on the website of Rashtriya Janhit Jansewa Sansthan (RJJS) and agreed to do as told.But what the 30-odd couples who fell for the promises made by the Dwarka-based ‘NGO’ weren’t told was that their babies had been stolen at birth from hospitals and nursing homes across the NCR . On Tuesday, police said two men and a woman who ran the racket had been arrested in a raid after a tip-off and a two-month-old baby was rescued from them.The trio promoted their ‘adoption service’ openly, even advertizing with handbills at traffic signals. People could log onto their website or visit their office to register. They even arranged for babies meeting the preferences of their prospective clients.Joint commissioner of police, southwestern range, Dependra Pathak said the kingpin of the gang, Vinod Kumar (42), set up RJJS in 2011 and then roped in Shiksha Chowdhary (28) and Anil Pandey (29) as co-directors of the unregistered NGO. It was Vinod’s job to convince prospective clients to sign up. The NGO charged an initial fee of Rs 10,000 and asked the couple to wait for a week. While they searched for a suitable baby, they also kept the couple under watch to ensure they weren’t being trapped.As soon as they had a newborn to sell, they would admit the prospective mother to a nursing home as a pregnant woman. A day later, the woman would go home with her ‘natural’ child. “Hospital admission served as proof of birth and the parents were given a notarized document as a birth certificate,” said a police officer.They usually charged Rs 4.5 lakh for a girl and Rs 5.5 lakh for a boy, but women who refused to get hospitalized had to pay more and were given older babies. Their fake adoption papers bore the stamp of Central Adoption Resource Authority . Some lawyers from Tis Hazari and Karkardooma courts helped clear legal hurdles.Police suspect the NGO had tied up with at least 10 nursing homes to admit false pregnancy cases and are investigating their owners . “We came to know about the practice from a field agent of the Women and Child department and formed a joint team led by additional DCP Nupur Prasad to act as decoy customers,” DCP (southwest) R A Sanjeev said.The trio has admitted to selling babies to 30 couples across Delhi and NCR and signing up 75 more. Vinod is learned to have told police that their agents in Aligarh, Bulandshahr, Meerut and Ranchi tied up with hospitals to steal or kidnap babies from maternity wards. But in some cases, surrogate mothers were used.Delhi Police will request anti-human trafficking units in neighbouring states and the crime branch to help them track these agents. Vinod, Shiksha and Anil have been booked under sections 370 (4) IPC (bonded labour) and 34 IPC (acting with common intention).