A new low
Baby prices declined yesterday to a new low of 25 paise in Bengal. This is well below the moving 50-day average of 29.3 paise. Market sources expect firm support at the psychologically important level of 22 paise.
Abject poverty drove a couple in West Bengal to “sell” their toddler son to a neighbour for a symbolic price of 25 paise.
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Leprosy-stricken Sukumar Mondal and his wife Meera, who have two daughters, were then left with no option but to hand over their one-and-a-half year old son to their relatively better off neighbours Bimal and Swapna Ghosh, reports said.