Missionaries of Charity sister arrested in baby-selling investigation

Two women affiliated with the Missionaries of Charity, one a religious sister and the other an employee, have been arrested in India, under suspicion of selling a baby from a shelter for unwed mothers.
The arrests happened on Tuesday and Wednesday in the Indian state of Jharkhand. The women are also under suspicion of selling three other infants, and are believed to have an additional accomplice, a shelter employee who is now being investigated.
No charges have yet been filed.
Police say that a couple reportedly paid 120,000 rupees ($1,760 USD) to Anima Indwar, who worked at a shelter run by the Missionaries of Charity. The couple complained that Indwar took their money in exchange for a child, and that she later took the child back from them without returning money.
At the time of the arrest, there were a dozen pregnant women living at the shelter, who have now been transferred to a government-run home.
A spokesperson for the Missionaries of Charity said that the order stopped dealing with child adoption in India back in 2015. The order is conducting their own investigation as to what happened in this particular case.
“There was no question of selling any child as the Missionaries of Charity had stopped giving children for adoption three years ago,” said Samita Kumar, spokeswoman for the order. She explained that they did not accept money for adoptions when they previously administered them.