Rajasthan: Man sold 13-yr-old daughter for Rs 7 lakh

A man in
Rajasthan’s Barmer district sold his 13 year old daughter for Rs 7 lakh, police
said after recovering her from Hyderabad on Monday.

Police
arrested two people on the charges of kidnapping her. The father and two others
were arrested in June when she went missing and are in jail, police added.

“We
recovered the girl with two accused. We brought her to Barmer on Tuesday. She
has been given to her mother. We will produce her in the high court on November
15,” said Barmer superintendent of police Sharad Choudhary.

Siwana
police station SHO Daud Khan said the girl is four months pregnant. On June 30,
a man registered a case of kidnapping and extortion when his niece went
missing.

In his FIR,
he said on June 22, a middleman identified as Gopa Ram Mali told his brother,
the girl’s father, that he had fixed the girl’s wedding in a reputed family.

The uncle
said his brother took his daughter to Siwana for a proposed meeting with the
groom’s family but when he returned, she was not with him. He said he had
dropped her to her maternal uncle’s house.

On June 26,
the family found that the girl was not at the maternal uncle’s house. The
father then said some people kidnapped her after which the family registered an
FIR.

Police said
Mali, Sanwla Ram Daspa (to whom the girl was sold) and girl’s father were
arrested in July first week on the charges of selling and buying the girl for
Rs 7 lakh. They were later sent to jail.

The Siwana
SHO said Daspa’s son was an accused in the case under sections 363
(kidnapping), 366 (kidnapping, abducting or inducing woman to compel her
marriage, etc) and 384 (extortion) of the Indian Penal Code.