BARASAT, WEST BENGAL, India: In what could be well described as a shocking incident, a couple in India sold their 8-month-old baby to purchase iPhone 14 so they could film Instagram Reels.
The couple, also having a 7-year-old daughter, have been identified as Jaydev Ghosh and Sathi. They hail from West Bengal’s North 24 Parganas district.
The media reports suggested Ghosh and Sathi wanted to buy an expensive phone. However, the police rescued the infant from a woman named Priyanka Ghosh, who paid for the baby. She lived in the same district.
The police have taken into custody the mother of the baby and the woman who paid for the infant, however, the father is on the run and the police are searching for him.
Sathi confessed to the crime as the police interrogated, saying that she and her husband sold their baby for the phone so they could film videos for Instagram during their trips across the state. The police said the father also tried selling his daughter but the plan did not materialise. The neighbour told India Today that the couple sold their baby boy for INR200,000.
