A couple sold their two-month old daughter to an unidentified couple.
The WCD ministry, specially Women and Child Development Minister Maneka Gandhi, has been making efforts to encourage adoption. (Representational image)
Hyderabad: Unable to bear the burden of bringing up two daughters, a couple sold their two-month old daughter to an unidentified couple in Dundigal under the garb of adoption. News of the couple selling their second daughter spread like in the tanda and reached officials of the Integrated Child Development Services.
When the ICDS officials questioned him, Nayak, said that he had given their daughter in adoption to a relative, Madhu. His wife said that she did not know Madhu. Officials found that through Madhu, they had sold the baby to an anganwadi worker in Medak. ICDS officials lodged a complaint with the police.
( Source : Deccan Chronicle. )
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