The recent discovery of a sprawling child trafficking ring by the Mumbai Crime Branch has revealed that an accused, Balkrishna Kamble, 33, who appears to be a pivotal figure, sold his own two children, and one child each of his sister and his sister-in-law. Implicated in a previous case of child trafficking around four years ago in Virar where he acted as a middleman, Kamble told investigators that the incident encouraged him to get further involved in child trafficking amid the lack of other employment opportunities. 

The child trafficking racket appears to have served people seeking to buy newborns in lieu of legal adoption. Investigations led by Crime Branch Unit IX’s senior Police Inspector (PI) Daya Nayak revealed that before she married him, Kamble’s wife and her ex-boyfriend were also involved in the sale of a child. Kamble was not connected to that sale.