Man arrested for selling twin daughters

Barasat(WB) : A man has been arrested for allegedly selling off his twin daughters to two childless couples in West Bengal's North 24 Parganas district.

According to the police Ratan Brahma(38) of Bahaduria village had allegedly sold his two-month-old twin daughters to a rice trader for Rs 1 lakh and to a couple of Ramchandrapur village for Rs 80,000. Brahma and his wife also have a 10-year-old daughter. The police arrested Brahma Sunday night and rescued one of the twins from the rice trader's house at Thakurnagar area. The second baby was recovered from the house of another childless couple at Ramchandrapur village.