Parents in Nellore district of Andhra Pradesh sell their12 year old daughter for Rs 10,000 to raise money for the treatment of hersibling who is 16 years old.
The incident was known by Thursday but as per reports, ithappened on Wednesday.
Local people had alerted the Integrated Child DevelopmentServices (ICDS). The girl was rescued form a man named Chinna Subbaiah.
The man had claimed that he (46) got married with theminor. The police is reported to have arrested the man. Claims are that heoffered previously also to buy the 12 year old girl. The parents of the girlare daily wage workers.
Subbaiah got separated from his wife after a discord. Thechild was heard screaming and crying by the local people who alerted the ICDS.
Child has been shifted to a district childcare center andan official said that neighbors informed them that the man accepted everythingas if there was nothing wrong in it.