Girls and women are being trafficked to Punjab and Haryana as boy baby-producing machines. These two states are already notorious for the worst sex ratios in the country, so this trafficking may also serve as an attempt to cover that up. While at first it was thought they were being trafficked because of the shortage of women for marriage, that theory has been overturned.
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