Even in this 21st century there are incidents of girls being treated as a commodity and used as medium for financial benefits, the Bombay High Court has said while granting bail to a woman for "purchasing" a one-year-old child.

It is highly objectionable in terms of the "principles of morality and human rights" that a one-year girl was sold by her mother, a single bench of Justice S M Modak said on February 8 in its order passed on a bail plea filed by 45-year-old Ashwini Babar, arrested last year by the Satara police in Maharashtra.