A small portion of the money had been given to the guard, while nine times that amount was given to "a sister."
Sister Konsalia said that Indwar told her she did not take any money.
The nun said she informed authorities about the matter and said the baby should be brought back.
A police source said that Indwar provided to police a handwritten note from Sister Konsalia asking Indwar to take the blame on herself, Matters India reports.
Sister Konsalia's defenders, including the bishops of India, are asking whether she was an accomplice, or the victim of a coerced confession.
Bishop Theodore Mascarenhas, Auxiliary Bishop of Ranchi, speaking to NDTV, charged that police are "treating the whole of Mother Teresa's organization as a criminal gang."
Bishop Mascarenhas, speaking in his role as the Secretary General of the Catholic Bishops' Conference of India, condemned the shelter staffer accused of selling the babies, but said the rule of law was not being followed in Sister Konsalia's case.
"Nobody was allowed to meet Sister Konsalia in custody," he said. "Her advocate could meet her on Wednesday, eight days after her arrest, only after we approached the court," he said July 12, according to the Hindustan Times. "During the 10 minutes interaction that the advocate could have with her, she said she was forced by the police to give her statement."
Mascarenhas had objected that the nun was being treated as a criminal. He said she is diabetic with varicose veins, and wasn't aware of her statement.
Mascarenhas condemned the sale.
"It shouldn't have happened. But, accusing the entire congregation of Mother Teresa is wrong," he said July 12.
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Babulal Marandi, former chief minister of Jharkhand, visited the shelter July 14 and interacted with the sisters, the news site Matters India reports. He alleged that the case had become a "media trial." He said the Missionaries of Charity have served society for many years.
"The government should conduct a direct probe instead of issuing statements to the media," he said.
However, police have said the accusations were filed on the basis of evidence, including confessions by the accused.
All four babies have been recovered by authorities. At the time of the arrests, there were a dozen pregnant women living at the shelter. They have now been transferred to a government-run home.
A spokesperson for the Kolkata-based Missionaries of Charity said that the order stopped dealing with child adoption in India in 2015, and did not take money for adoptions when it did assist in them. The order is conducting their own investigation about the case.
Members of opposition parties have accused India's ruling party, the Hindu-nationalist group the Bharatiya Janata Party, of harassing and persecuting the missionaries on the basis of unbelievable allegations.