Mirzapur cops rescue child sold in Agra, six human traffickers held

A two-and-a-half-year-old boy from a poor family in a village in Mirzapur district in Uttar Pradesh was sold to a childless couple in Agra, and was rescued by the police after they arrested six people, including the boy's father's friends. The boy was handed over to his mother. The case came to the attention of the police after a woman in Chunar village in Mirzapur district filed a complaint that her son had been sold to a stranger. The police then engaged in a search for the boy, and found that he and his mother had fled to Agra. The police arrested the boy's father's friends, including the boy's father's friends' sons, and recovered five mobile phones that were used to finalize the sale and to collect the money. The police are still searching for the sixth person involved in the sale.