Women’s panel to probe case of indebted farmers selling women

By IANS,

New Delhi : The National Commission for Women (NCW) Monday said it was sending a team to probe the “awful and unbelievable” reports that debt-ridden farmers in Uttar Pradesh’s drought-hit Bundelkhand region were selling off their women to survive.

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“It is awful and unbelievable that it still happens in the country and that too in Uttar Pradesh where the chief minister is a woman,” NCW Chairperson Girija Vyas told IANS.

“We are sending a team to find out the details and have asked for the report within 24 hours,” she said.

Vyas said the commission has asked some NGOs to visit Bundelkhand to find out the reality.

The commission has also written a letter to Chief Minister Mayawati on the issue.