The Mumbai Police has busted an international child trafficking racket. With the arrest of kingpin Rajubhai Gamlewala aka Rajubhai, the police have also found that at least 300 children were sent to the US since 2007, said media reports on Thursday. According to The Times of India, Rajubhai charged Rs 45 lakh per child from his clients.
The children, aged 11-16, came from poor families, usually in Gujarat. “Finding it difficult to take care of them, their parents or guardians would sell them,” said a police officer.
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Police said that after receiving an order from clients un the US, Gamlewala, 50, would instruct his gang to find a poor family, usually in Gujarat, willing to sell a child. They would also find families willing to rent out their children’s passports.
A passport with a picture with some resemblance to the about-to-be-trafficked child would then be selected. The gang would then pay a carrier to take the child to the US. Before that, makeup would be applied to the child for a stronger resemblance with the picture on the passport. After the carrier returned from the US, the passport would be returned to the original holder. It is not yet clear how the passport would be stamped by immigration without its bearer’s presence, the police said.
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