Girl Child Sold

A poverty-hit Odisha tribal woman, who was saddened by the birth of a second girl child, allegedly sold her eight-month-old daughter to a couple for a measly Rs 800, police said.

Five people have been arrested for abetting child marriage and human trafficking in Madhya Pradesh's capital Bhopal, police said.

A 17-year-old girl from Madhya Pradesh who left on a trip after her class 10 exams ended up being abducted and sold as a bride twice, a Child Welfare Committee (CWC) official here said on Tuesday.

Even in this 21st century there are incidents of girls being treated as a commodity and used as medium for financial benefits, the Bombay High Court has said while granting bail to a woman for "purchasing" a one-year-old child.

In a shocking incident, a man allegedly sold his newborn girl child to another person for Rs 6,000 after which the police arrested three people, police said on Friday.

A three-month-old girl was sold by her father for Rs 70,000, and 11 people were found to have been involved in the case, said the police, adding that all the accused have been apprehended.

Eleven were arrested for allegedly kidnapping a 4-month-old girl and selling her for Rs 4.8 lakh to a Tamil Nadu-based civil engineer, an official said, adding that the infant has been rescued by two Mumbai police teams from Coimbatore in Tamil Nadu.

A baby selling racket has been busted in Hyderabad, in which a child trafficking gang identified girls while still in the womb and found buyers for them, putting a price on their head even before they are born. NDTV tracked this gang over the last six months.

Four people were arrested by Kendrapara police on Saturday, including an ASHA worker and the owner of nursing home staff, in Odisha's coastal Kendrapara district. The couple alleged that they were forced to sell their newborn girl in order to clear the hospital bills.

A newborn girl was allegedly sold by her mother for Rs 5,000 in Khammam district of Telangana as could not raise the child due to poverty, police said today.

In what highlights the sorry state of affairs in the backward areas of Tripura, a tribal couple in remote Dhalai district sold their girl child as they were unable to bear the expenses of the infant.

A newborn girl child was allegedly sold for Rs 6,000 by her parents in Odisha's Jajpur district, prompting the authorities to order a probe into the incident today.

A one-week-old baby girl, sold by desperate parents in Assam's Bongaigaon district allegedly because they could not settle hospital bills, has been rescued by the district administration and is back with her parents.

A four-month-old girl was allegedly sold by her drunkard father to a woman for Rs 19,000 in Khamman district of Telangana, police said today.

Prosecutors have charged a man in Chile with buying a baby girl over the Internet for $102, court documents showed on Sunday.

A poverty-hit Odisha tribal woman, who was saddened by the birth of a second girl child, allegedly sold her eight-month-old daughter to a couple for a measly Rs 800, police said.

Five people have been arrested for abetting child marriage and human trafficking in Madhya Pradesh's capital Bhopal, police said.

A 17-year-old girl from Madhya Pradesh who left on a trip after her class 10 exams ended up being abducted and sold as a bride twice, a Child Welfare Committee (CWC) official here said on Tuesday.

Even in this 21st century there are incidents of girls being treated as a commodity and used as medium for financial benefits, the Bombay High Court has said while granting bail to a woman for "purchasing" a one-year-old child.

In a shocking incident, a man allegedly sold his newborn girl child to another person for Rs 6,000 after which the police arrested three people, police said on Friday.

A three-month-old girl was sold by her father for Rs 70,000, and 11 people were found to have been involved in the case, said the police, adding that all the accused have been apprehended.

Eleven were arrested for allegedly kidnapping a 4-month-old girl and selling her for Rs 4.8 lakh to a Tamil Nadu-based civil engineer, an official said, adding that the infant has been rescued by two Mumbai police teams from Coimbatore in Tamil Nadu.

A baby selling racket has been busted in Hyderabad, in which a child trafficking gang identified girls while still in the womb and found buyers for them, putting a price on their head even before they are born. NDTV tracked this gang over the last six months.

Four people were arrested by Kendrapara police on Saturday, including an ASHA worker and the owner of nursing home staff, in Odisha's coastal Kendrapara district. The couple alleged that they were forced to sell their newborn girl in order to clear the hospital bills.

A newborn girl was allegedly sold by her mother for Rs 5,000 in Khammam district of Telangana as could not raise the child due to poverty, police said today.

In what highlights the sorry state of affairs in the backward areas of Tripura, a tribal couple in remote Dhalai district sold their girl child as they were unable to bear the expenses of the infant.

A newborn girl child was allegedly sold for Rs 6,000 by her parents in Odisha's Jajpur district, prompting the authorities to order a probe into the incident today.

A one-week-old baby girl, sold by desperate parents in Assam's Bongaigaon district allegedly because they could not settle hospital bills, has been rescued by the district administration and is back with her parents.

A four-month-old girl was allegedly sold by her drunkard father to a woman for Rs 19,000 in Khamman district of Telangana, police said today.

Prosecutors have charged a man in Chile with buying a baby girl over the Internet for $102, court documents showed on Sunday.