Minor girl allegedly sold by mother for Rs. 1 lakh to traffickers, rescued
NATIONAL | September 16, 2019:
In a horrific incident, a minor girl was allegedly sold by her mother to traffickers and was later rescued from Bawana by the Delhi Commission for Women said on Sunday.
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The panel said that on September 15, she was asked to accompany her mother to her sister's place in Badarpur, but instead she took her to a hotel in Nizamuddin, where her mother had a deal with a guy named Shahid and has asked her to go along with him.
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Shahid, instead, took her to his house at Ishwar Colony in Bawana village, the panel claimed.
The girl used to live with her mother, stepfather and four siblings.
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The girl had also informed that her mother had also sold her one-year-old brother last month to a trafficker as she was under debt and in order to pay it off, she had sold her child, the panel claimed.
It said that the police have registered a case in the matter but are yet to make any arrests. The girl was sent to a shelter home, according to the DCW.
Source: TNN