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Woman sells off son to release jailed husband
Updated On: 24 September, 2012 02:40 PM IST | | Agencies
In a desperate bid to arrange money to get her husband released from jail, a woman in Odisha's Jajpur district allegedly sold off her 17-month-old son for Rs 5,000, police said here today.
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Rakhi Patra (20) of Mundamal village went to Cuttack on September 13 and handed the baby boy over to a person belonging to Jagatsinghpur, inspector-in-charge Aswini Kumar Sahu said.u00a0
After getting information about the incident, her mother-in-law Kanakalata Patra filed an FIR on September 21 alleging that Rakhi had sold off the child to an unknown person, he said.
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