Poverty drives mum to sell infant for Rs 500

BHUBANESWAR/KORAPUT: Close on the heels of the death of five members of a poor tribal family within two months in Khaprakhol block of Bolangir district, an alleged case of child sale in Dhenkanal and suicide of a woman in Rayagada have come as a rude shock for the Naveen Patnaik government. Read More................Poverty drives mum to sell infant for Rs 500

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Kids bring mom home after 20-yr jungle stay

MUMBAI: In the hospital ward in the western suburbs where Laxmi Baraskar is being treated, the staff call her "Jungle Laxmi" — an apt moniker for the wiry woman who spent the last two decades in the jungle near Guhagar taluka in Ratnagiri. Read More................Kids bring mom home after 20-yr jungle stay

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Mom kills daughter for wanting school

In Jodhpur district in Rajasthan state of India, a 12-year-old girl was beaten and then hanged by her mother as she demanded to be sent to school.

The girl was beaten unconscious with a rolling pin by her mother.

"The mother thought she had killed the girl and, in panic, decided to make it appear like a suicide," a police officer was quoted as saying.

"She allegedly tied a rope around the girl's neck and hung her from the ceiling."
The woman has been arrested.

The girl's father, a laborer, said he and his wife could not afford a bicycle to send their daughter to school a few miles away.............Read more.......Rajasthan mum kills daughter for wanting school

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