Prashant Dubey, a social activist, who is fighting against child trafficking, says agents in the city receive demands from Rajasthan for brides after which they lure the family of the girl and sell them.

Dubey said, "Once parents of a girl agree, she is taken to Rajasthan for marriage. The girl and his family don't have any right to reject the boy even if they don't like him. But the groom's family can reject them."

"Most of these girls are tribals and dalits, who have to go through a 'shuddhikaran' in Indore, in which they have to attend a religious ceremony, conducted by a priest for a period of eight days. It is only after this, they are eligible to get married to a groom of upper caste," he said.
Surprisingly, it is happening in a state, which has 24 anti-human trafficking units with an annual budget of more than Rs 7 lakh per unit. But still 24 children go missing from MP every day. The number of missing girls is double the number of boys, going State Crime Record Bureau (SCRB) statistics.
In last 10 years, more than 80,000 children went missing in the state. Of these, 82% children were traced. But, 18% are still missing. Traffickers are largely targeting tribal-dominated districts in the state for human trafficking. Tribal districts have maximum number of cases of girls trafficking.
Bharti Sharma, former chairperson of CWC, says, "In every six months, more than 50 children in an age group of 9-12 from Madhya Pradesh are rescued from Delhi. These children are sold by traffickers to agents in Delhi, who send them as domestic help or labourers in small scale industries."
"These children are exploited to the core. They are made to work 16-18 hours every day. They are not given food and beaten up every day. Sometimes, they are sexually assaulted. They are not paid for work," Sharma said
TOI