India, Nov. 3 -- The Government of India has issued a release:
The National Human Rights Commission has taken suo motu cognizance of a media report that a large number of minor girl children are being sold for Rs. 3 lakh to Rs. 5 lakh by their parents to middlemen in several districts along the borders of Madhya Pradesh and Rajasthan. Subsequently, these small girls are trafficked by middlemen with the help of false documents showing them as their adopted children. On gaining adulthood, they are sold for Rs. 35 lakh to Rs. 40 lakh in different cities of Maharashtra for sex trade after changing their personal details to hide their identities.
The Commission has observed that the contents of the news report, if true, raise serious issues of...