Crime·4/27/2026AI summary Businessman and Wife Arrested for Abandoning Toddler on Highway, Linked to Child Trafficking Racket
A Guna-based businessman and his wife have been arrested for allegedly abandoning their 2.5-year-old daughter on National Highway-552 in Sheopur district, believing the child brought bad luck. Police discovered the child was not legally adopted but purchased for around Rs 1 lakh through an illegal network in Indore. The case has widened into a suspected child trafficking racket, with investigators working to trace the child's biological parents and uncover the full scale of the operation.