Chamarajanagar: Parents among five arrested for selling new-born girl for ₹50,000
Chamarajanagar: Police arrested five people, including the parents, in connection with the illegal sale of a new-born baby girl for ₹50,000. The case came to light after the child went missing last year, officials said.
The baby girl was born to Sindhu and Manjunayaka, residents of Ramasamudra in Chamarajanagar town, on July 26, 2025, at the Chamarajanagar District Hospital. However, Child Development Project Officers later noticed that the newborn was not in the custody of the parents. Following this, a complaint was filed at the police station on September 15, 2025.
Based on the complaint, police launched an investigation and took the parents into custody on January 23. During interrogation, it was revealed that the newborn had been sold for ₹50,000 to a couple, Javaraya and Nethra of Konanur village in Arakalgud taluk of Hassan district, through an intermediary.
Police said the intermediary was Shanta, a Group D employee working at Cheluvamba Hospital in Mysuru, who allegedly facilitated the illegal transaction.
During the investigation, police traced and rescued the baby, who had been in the custody of the couple for nearly six months. The child was found to be healthy and was handed over to the Child Development Department for care and protection.
Investigators said the accused had been absconding for around six months and were tracked using technical and scientific methods. Those arrested include the child’s parents Sindhu and Manjunayaka, the middlewoman Shanta, and the couple Javaraya and Nethra, who had illegally kept the child.
All five accused were produced before a court and have been remanded to judicial custody.
The investigation was carried out under the guidance of District Superintendent of Police Muthuraj, Additional Superintendent of Police Shashidhar, Deputy Superintendent of Police Sneharaj N, Inspector M Jagadeesh, Sub-Inspector R Manjunath and staff of the Chamarajanagar Town Police Station.
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Trouble ‘Miyas’ everywhere only then they will leave Assam: Himanta Biswa Sarma
Says “Himanta Biswa Sarma, BJP are openly against them, we are saying it openly
New Delhi: Assam Chief Minister Himanta Biswa Sarma on Tuesday said that four to five lakh “Miya voters” would be removed from the electoral rolls in the state once the Special Intensive Revision (SIR) of voter lists is carried out. He also made a series of controversial remarks openly targeting the Miya community, a term commonly used in Assam in a derogatory sense to refer to Bengali-speaking Muslims.
Speaking to reporters on the sidelines of an official programme in Digboi in Tinsukia district, Sarma said it was his responsibility to create difficulties for the Miya community and claimed that both he and the BJP were “directly against Miyas”.
“Four to five lakh Miya votes will have to be deleted in Assam when the SIR happens,” Sarma said, adding that such voters “should ideally not be allowed to vote in Assam, but in Bangladesh”. He asserted that the government was ensuring that they would not be able to vote in the state.
The chief minister was responding to questions about notices issued to thousands of Bengali-speaking Muslims during the claims and objections phase of the ongoing Special Revision (SR) of electoral rolls in Assam. While the Election Commission is conducting SIR exercises in 12 states and Union Territories, Assam is currently undergoing an SR, which is usually meant for routine updates.
Calling the current SR “preliminary”, Sarma said that a full-fledged SIR in Assam would lead to large-scale deletion of Miya voters. He said he was unconcerned about criticism from opposition parties over the issue.
“Let the Congress abuse me as much as they want. My job is to make the Miya people suffer,” Sarma said. He claimed that complaints filed against members of the community were done on his instructions and that he had encouraged BJP workers to keep filing complaints.
“I have told people wherever possible they should fill Form 7 so that they have to run around a little and are troubled,” he said, adding that such actions were meant to send a message that “the Assamese people are still living”.
In remarks that drew further outrage, Sarma urged people to trouble members of the Miya community in everyday life, claiming that “only if they face troubles will they leave Assam”. He also accused the media of sympathising with the community and warned journalists against such coverage.
“So you all should also trouble, and you should not do news that sympathise with them. There will be love jihad in your own house.” He said.
The comments triggered reactions from opposition leaders. Raijor Dal president and MLA Akhil Gogoi said the people of Assam had not elected Sarma to keep one community under constant pressure. Congress leader Aman Wadud accused the chief minister of rendering the Constitution meaningless in the state, saying his remarks showed a complete disregard for constitutional values.
According to the draft electoral rolls published on December 27, Assam currently has 2.51 crore voters. Election officials said 4.78 lakh names were marked as deceased, 5.23 lakh as having shifted, and 53,619 duplicate entries were removed during the revision process. Authorities also claimed that verification had been completed for over 61 lakh households.
On January 25, six opposition parties the Congress, Raijor Dal, Assam Jatiya Parishad, CPI, CPI(M) and CPI(M-L) submitted a memorandum to the state’s chief electoral officer. They alleged widespread legal violations, political interference and selective targeting of genuine voters during the SR exercise, describing it as arbitrary, unlawful and unconstitutional.
