For some time now, the very state that houses the IT hub of Hyderabad has been grappling with the shocking suicides of handloom weavers and cotton farmers. And last month the child trafficking scandal came as a bombshell. It was, in fact, a sequel to another child trafficking racket. Part one was enacted two years ago and the child traffickers continued unchecked due to negligence by state authorities. This time, the authorities woke up from their slumber only when a police team from neighboring Karnataka reached Tandur town in Ranga Reddy district to probe the alleged purchase of children by the John Abraham Bethany Home, an adoption center.
Nobody knows what happened to the earlier inquiry.
This time some unlicensed adoption agencies were also raided. Sunita Sen, wife of additional director general of police Swaranjit Sen, emerged as a new player in the racket. She was illegally running her adoption center, Precious Moments. No other state in the country presents a paradox as Andhra Pradesh does. It has been at the forefront of implementing radical economic reforms.