Pregnant girl ‘sold’ for Rs 50k by parents

Vadodara: A 17-year-old girl in Shinor taluka of Vadodara has made allegations of child trafficking against her parents and paramour. Police have detained the girl’s parents and the paramour Vikas Vasava and have kept them in a quarantine facility.
The girl, who is currently pregnant, lodged an offence after Vasava asked her to leave the house on June 1. The duo was in living-in relation after the parents gave her custody to him for Rs 50,000 when they learnt that she was pregnant. Police said that the girl’s parents had refused to accept her so that they signed a agreement with Vasava. The girl too was aware about it, but as they were living happily together, she did not have any complaint against it.
However, a few months back, one of the girl’s relatives started instigating her father to take more money from Vasava. “The relative told her father that Rs 50,000 is very less and he should have taken Rs 5 lakh as the girl is still a minor. So the father started asking for more money,” said a police official. As Vasava was working as a casual labourer he refused to pay more money. But when the girl’s father kept pressurizing him, he asked the girl to go back to her parents’ home.