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Driven by extreme poverty and lack of work during the lockdown situation, a migrant labourer from Assam, reportedly sold his 15-day-old daughter for 45,000 INR, but police rescued the baby.
The man and two women have been arrested on the charge of human trafficking, Police has said.
Dipak Brahma, a resident of Dhantola Mandaria, a forest area in Kokrajhar district, had recently returned from Gujarat, where he worked as a labourer.
He was jobless and finding it hard to support his family, according to an official of an NGO working against human trafficking.
After his return, the family started living at the house of his in-laws in Kochugaon Patakata village in the same district.