Last month, a 22-year-old rape survivor fled home to Mumbai from Gujarat and exposed an inter-state human trafficking racket involving the supply of women and young girls from the city and its outskirts to be sold as brides in a village near Ahmedabad, which has a very skewed sex ratio.

According to the cops, the girls were kept in the dark until the very day of the wedding, when they were sold as brides to considerably older men in Bakrana village. REPRESENTATION PIC/THINKSTOCK