India, May 22 -- A 30-year-old woman from Honnalli in the Davanagere district was sold for Rs.1 lakh to a man in Solapur, Maharashtra, Karnataka police said. An FIR against three accused, listed in the complaint by the victim's brother, was filed at the Honnalli police station.

Davanagere police superintendent Uma Prashant told reporters on Tuesday that based on the complaint of the woman's brother, the police have filed an FIR against three persons from Davanagere district who took the woman for work in Solapur instead of Shivamogga on May 12. "The Davanagere police are in touch with Solapur police and we have also sent a team to Solapur to bring back the woman," SP Uma added.

A mother of a young son, the woman lost her husband a few m...