PRAYAGRAJ, April 14 -- Parents of a 13-year-old girl in Kaushambi, sold her for Rs.5 lakh to a man in Etah last month. The purchaser allegedly raped the girl for three days in bondage. However, after the girl managed to escape from the house of the purchaser and reached her house, her parents conceded to her that they had sold her for Rs.5 lakh to the Etah resident but refused to keep her with them. The parents forced her to go back to the man as they had sold her.

A divided Panchayat too failed to resolve the issue even after 25 days of sittings.

The case came to light after the aunt of the girl, with whom she had been staying for over three weeks after her parents refused to keep her, took the harried teenager to Karari police station...