Missionaries of Charity Nun receives bail in the baby-selling case

Konsolia Bakhla, a nun who worked at Nirmal Hriday shelter, a Ranchi-based Missionaries of Charity Trust has been granted a four-month provision bail by Jharkhand High Court. She served a prison sentence for allegedly selling a child last year born to an inmate, to a couple in Uttar Presh. Bakhla was arrested in July 2018.  court will hear case after four months. 

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baby-selling racket case: nun receives bail

bench of Justice Anand Sen granted provisional bail for four months and asked her to deposit her passport and two sureties of Rs 10,000 each. Bakhla's counsel Chandan Kumari argued that Bakhla should receive bail as re were direct charges against her. She also argued that Bakhla has been ill and in jail since July 2018.  lawyer reportedly said, that ar accused, Anima Indwar, who was arrested along with Bakhla, has alrey obtained bail. 

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case

Rupa Verma, Chairperson of Ranchi Child Welfare Committee (CWC) me complaints against two nuns regarding alleged racket. Arrests were me later on July 5, 2018. In complaint, she h alleged that a couple from Uttar Presh's Sone Bhra h approached CWC after shelter took away ir child on May 14. After arrest, a nun h allegedly confessed on camera that she sold babies in exchange for money. According to law enforcement officers, four children were reportedly sold from shelter home, all of whom have w been found. Nirmal Hriday shelter h issued a statement last year condemning acts of nuns.

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What really went on in scandal

In July 2018, a couple from Uttar Presh approached Ranchi’s Child Welfare Committee (CWC) alleging that a woman called Anima Indwar took away  child she helped m opt on May 14.  couple said y paid her Rs 1.2 lakh for child. As per reports, 450 pregnant women were brought to Missionaries of Charity hospitals, but organisation founded by Mor Teresa could furnish only childbirth records of 170 babies which meant that records of 280 newborns in India were left untraceable. According to police, racket allegedly involved illegal tre and trafficking of children. However, police later reportedly clarified that re was truth to se reports.

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