A 35-year-old woman and her associate were arrested for allegedly trying to sell a 15-day-old baby girl for Rs 4.5 lakh. The police said the main accused, Julia Fernandez, faces many cases of human trafficking, said the police. 

The arrests came on a complaint of Jayprakash Jadhav, who works with an adoption centre in Kondhwa, Pune, and is also a member of the Central Adoption Resources Authority (CARA). Jadhav was tipped that a woman from Mumbai was looking for a buyer for a newborn girl. He alerted the local woman and child welfare authority which shared the piece of information with its peers in Mumbai.