Ghaziabad, Feb. 6 -- Three persons were arrested on Wednesday in connection the kidnapping and human trafficking of a nine-month-old child from Ghaziabad, senior police officers said , adding that the child was sold twice to two different parties --once for Rs.80,000 and the second time for Rs.1.5 lakh -- before police teams recovered the infant from Udham Singh Nagar in Uttarakhand.

Police identified the three suspects as Hapur resident Manoj Kumar, 28, and Udham Singh Nagar residents Mahavir Kumar, 38, and Harivansh Singh, 42.

Explaining the sequence of events, police said suspect Manoj Kumar from Hapur was known to the child's father, Manoj Kumar, 28, who is a resident of Dinanathpur Puthi, as they both worked in the same factory.

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