A man of the Ranpur police station area in Nayagarh district allegedly tried to sell off his two daughters for Rs 2 lakh to a child trafficker in Ranchi.
This came to light after the two sisters fled from their house before execution of the deal.
The accused father had struck the deal with a middleman in Ranchi and taken Rs 2 lakh in an advance from him.
When the girls learned of this on September 22, they somehow managed to run away from the house deep into the forests of Chandradeipur.
The sisters stayed there for three days until they were rescued by police and officials of the Child Welfare Committee (CWC). It is then that the sisters narrated their ordeal before police and the CWC. Police have launched an investigation into the allegation.