India Psychiatrist Rashmi Shashikumar Sentenced to Prison for Kidnapping, Selling Newborn

March 5, 2025

Bengaluru: A city court recently held a 36-year-old psychiatrist guilty of stealing a newborn boy and selling him for Rs 14.5 lakh in 2020 and sentenced her to 10 years of rigorous imprisonment.

Judge CB Santosh also fined convict Rashmi Shashikumar, a resident of Nagarbhavi, Rs 1 lakh.

Rashmi, who was out on bail and present in the court when the orders were passed on Feb. 19, was taken into custody and sent to Begaluru Central Prison.

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