Tuesday, February 03, 2009

If you're born a girl in India, you wouldn't be worth much...

In yet another shocking incident that illustrates the deep-rooted prejudice against female children in India's society, police have arrested four people in connection with the attempted sale of a newborn baby boy in the northern Punjab state. 

Balwinder Singh and his wife Sonia of Jalandhar had allegedly struck a deal with an agent to sell their 4th child even before he was born, after an illegal sex-determination test showed the child to be male. The child was sold in December, soon after his birth, to a businessman desperate for a male child. The price was RS100,000 ($2,050)-- although the agent apparently paid only half the promised amount to the parents. More...

See also:

  1. In India it's great to be born a boy! As a girl?
  2. India: a son is a blessing, a daughter a burden...
  3. Genocide: India's missing daughters...
  4. India: no country for young girls...
  5. India: dowry inadequate, man shaves off wife's head!!!

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