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New Delhi, Oct 28 (PTI) The Delhi Commission for Women has rescued a four-month-old girl, who was allegedly sold by her father when she was only six-day-old, according to a statement.
The commission"s mahila panchayat office at Shahbad Dairy received a complaint from an anonymous source on October 21 that a man had sold his girl child.
The commission immediately formed a team and contacted the Delhi Police.
A team of the DCW, along with the Delhi Police, then approached the girl’s mother who lives with her parents.
She informed that she is a patient of epilepsy and when her daughter was born, her husband sold her to a woman named Madhu and went to Ranchi, the statement said.
She also informed that earlier as well, when she gave birth to a daughter, her husband had given away her to a distant relative and their daughter eventually died.