New Delhi: The National Human Rights Commission (NHRC) on Friday said that its intervetion led to the arrest of 23 accused persons in Rajasthan for allegedly selling girls, mostly minors on stamp papers for physical abuse and sexual assault in various parts of the country and abroad.
The NHRC observed that given the registration of cases involving the selling of girls in some communities in the recent past, it appears that the practice is still continuing unabated.
It has said that this practice requires to be curbed forthwith in totality and stringent steps be taken by all the stakeholders.
The commission’s observations have come in the wake of its findings in a case registered suo motu by it on October 27, 2022, based on a media report alleging that girls were being sold on stamp paper in half a dozen districts of Rajasthan and sent to UP, Mp, Mumbai, Delhi and foreign countries and subjected to physical abuse, torture and sexual assault in slavery.
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