NEW DELHI
A woman suspected of running a fake employment agency that organised the rape of young women and sale of their subsequent babies to childless couples has been arrested for kidnapping and wrongful confinement.
Preeti and her husband Vinod, who both go by one name, ran a job agency in the Indian capital, New Delhi, offering maids to families, said a police spokesman.
The couple allegedly lured women and girls by promising agency work, but instead confined them to a room where they were raped to make them pregnant. Their children were then sold to childless couples, the spokesman said.
Preeti was arrested on charges of rape, kidnapping, threat to life and wrongful confinement. Police were hunting for Vinood.
The scandal emerged when a television channel ran a story on the agency.
Most of the girls lured to the agency came from poor families in the eastern states of Bihar and Jharkhand.
Womens' rights groups say thousands of poor women and girls are trafficked every year after being lured from villages to cities on false promises of jobs or marriages.-AP
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