The police on Thursday registered a case against parents of a baby boy for selling him to another couple.
B lalamma and B Jaiappa, residents of Karankota in the neighbouring Vikarabad district, sold their one-and-a-half months old boy to another couple, Vijaya and Bhoopathi, based in Tandur town, around seven months ago, police said.
Two others, Anjarmma and Dattappa, acted as agents, said sub-inspector laxmaiah.
Officials of the NGO Childline lodged a complaint with police on Thursday saying that after getting a tip-off that a baby had been sold for Rs8,000, they traced the buyer couple in Tandur town of Vikarabad district and rescued him.
Police probe revealed that the parents, with the help of a lawyer, had prepared an adoption deed before giving up the boy to Vijaya and Bhoopathi, and later took Rs8,000 from them.
