The parents who got arrested yesterday (01)over the selling of their 08 day old infant boy to another couple for Rs.50,000 had bought a temporarily built shanty from Modara Area in Colombo Suburbs by spending Rs.18,000 out of that money the initial investigations carried out by the Police have revealed .The mother of the infant boy who sold him to another couple gave birth to the child on 24th of August at North Colombo (Ragama) Teaching Hospital.The infant was sold to the couple reside in Uswetakeyyawa Area in Colombo through another two women after the mother discharged from the hospital on 29th of August police has said.The male who bought the infant from his parents has been identified as a butcher.
All the six persons involved in the selling of the infant were arrested by the police .
