Couple sells baby to buy iPhone 14 for Instagram reels

In a deeply disturbing incident, a couple from West Bengal's North 24 Parganas district reportedly sold their eight-month-old baby boy in order to purchase an iPhone 14, intending to create videos for Instagram reels. The couple, identified as Jaydev Ghosh and Sathi, had a desire to shoot high-quality content and settled on Apple's latest flagship phone as their means to achieve this goal. They also have a seven-year-old daughter. The police managed to rescue the infant from Priyanka Ghosh, a resident of Khardah in the same district, who had paid money for the child. Both the boy's mother and Ms. Ghosh have been arrested, while the father remains at large, prompting an ongoing search operation to apprehend him. During the interrogation, the child's mother confessed to the crime, revealing that she and her husband had planned to use the money to travel across the state, creating content for Instagram reels. According to a police officer's statement in the report, the father had allegedly attempted to sell their daughter as well, but the plan did not materialize.