Indian Community in Australia

An Indian couple had claimed they paid 120,000 rupees ($2354) to Anima Indwar, who worked at the shelter run by the Missionaries of Charity. The home in eastern India’s Jharkhand state is run by Missionaries of Charity, the order set up by Mother Teresa in India, and provides shelter for pregnant unmarried women.

As per report the nun have sold at least six babies to childless couples.

Arti Kujur, head of the Jharkhand State Child Protection Society, said the home was charging between 40,000 Indian rupees (about $A788) and 100,000 rupees ($A1970) for each baby, depending on what the childless couple could afford.

Police officer Kumar said 100,000 rupees ($1963) was recovered from the two who were arrested.

Mother Teresa started the Missionaries of Charity order in Kolkata in 1950 and it later set up hundreds of shelters that care for some of the world’s neediest, people she described as “the poorest of the poor.”

She received the Nobel Peace Prize for her charitable work in 1979 and Pope Francis declared her a saint last year, two decades after her death.