While the Banchhada community, a nomadic tribe in Neemuch and other tribal hamlets in Madhya Pradesh celebrate the birth of a girl child, it is, time reveals, only to force them into prostitution from a tender age of 10-12 years.

The crime was brought to light when a team of activists from Mumbai initiated an operation along with officers from Kukdeshwar police station in the Neemuch district on June 8 and rescued two minors aged 12 and 13 years from the family-run brothels here.