Mumbai: A woman was among five persons booked on Sunday for allegedly trying to sell her newborn son for Rs 5 lakh in Mumbai's Shivaji Nagar-Govandi area, a police official said.

A 21-year-old unmarried woman had given birth prematurely at a nursing home in Govandi, the official said.

An activist, Binu Varghese, alerted police about the newborn being sold, following which a team under Deonar police station assistant inspector Kailas Sonawane rushed to the nursing home to begin probe, the official said. Read Also Mumbai Police Receives Threat Call About Terrorist Attack at Naval Dock; Caller Taken Into Custody

The nursing home's owner Dr Kayamuddin Khan, staffer Anita Popat Sawant, the child's mother, agent Shama and Darshana, who was trying to purchase the infant, were booked, he sa

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