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In a land where a sheep costs Rs 1,000 and a cow almost
Rs 14,000, a girl is available for anything between Rs 2,000 and Rs 10,000.
The price depends on the physical condition of the girl and the paying
capacity of the buyer. Since girls from Jammu and Kashmir have fair
complexion, they are sold off for Rs 8,000 to Rs 10,000, to rich men,
especially widowers, to physically challenged persons, or those who are
unable to have a male child from their first wives. The “dark-complexion”
girls from Assam, Bihar and West Bengal are meant for “sale” to landless and
poor customers.
New girls are brought every month from the states
mentioned above and are sold off in a radius of about 80 km around the
Capital. The region’s infamy in this trade also attracts “customers” from
nearby states of Uttaranchal, Uttar Pradesh and Rajasthan.
http://www.tribuneindia.com/2003/20030901/main1.htm
Ruchika M. Khanna
Tribune News Service
Nearly a month after the police busted a human
trafficking racket in Hathin block of Faridabad district, the trade in sale
of girls continues unabated in this region of the state. It is back to
business in Mewat, which has acquired notoriety as one of the biggest markets
of girls from Assam, Bihar, West Bengal and Jammu and Kashmir.
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In village Malab Nuh of Gurgaon district, this correspondent came across two
girls, 13-year-old Tahira and 17-year-old Ayesha Siddiqa, who had been sold
off to 40-year-old Hassan and his 20-year-old mentally deranged nephew, Asru
respectively, on August 22. The girls, both from Bildang in West Bengal, were
bought for Rs 3,000 each. The family says that since Ayesha Siddiqa was not
very good looking, she was bought for Asru, while Tahira was bought for
Hassan, whose first wife had deserted him.
Though these “bought brides” enjoy social acceptance,
language remains a barrier for several years. Since most of them come from
poverty-stricken homes, they are comparatively happy here — with their basic
needs being fulfilled. Also, with their “husbands” willing to help their
families back home, these women say that life could not have been better. |
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