A child adoption and trafficking racket was busted in Andhra Pradesh by state police last fortnight. A state lawmaker and some eminent people were arrested in connection with the racket.
Police suspect similar rackets in some of the adoption centres in Orissa.
The orphanage was functioning illegally at Kadampada in the outskirts of Cuttack city. The orphanage record revealed that it had housed 11 children, all below seven years. Of them four were found missing, he said on condition of anonymity. The orphanage claimed that two of them died due to sunstroke a week ago and two were returned to their parents. Besides the returning children to the parents, as claimed by Swain, is illegal, he said.