This Article is From Feb 20, 2012

Women arrested on charges of selling child

Bangalore: Two women were arrested on charges of selling a three-year-old girl child for Rs 5,000 in Chikaballapur district.

The two have been remanded to judicial custody, police said, adding one man, a co-accused in the case, is absconding.

The duo sold the child to another woman in Gudibande, about 70 km away from bangalore, police said.

The child's mother in a complaint to police alleged that her kid was "forcibly" taken away by the two women and the man following a personal dispute.

The child's father is undergoing sentence in connection with a murder case, police said.
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