After a long battle with the police, the Child Welfare Committee (CWC) has succeeded in filing a first information report (FIR) against a lady allegedly involved in human trafficking. 

Almost after a two-month-long follow-up on Tuesday, Manikpur police station filed the FIR against the woman under the IPC 366 for kidnapping, abducting or inducing a woman to compel her into marriage.

In January, the Child Welfare Committee (CWC) rescued two minors from Vasai as a woman attempted to abduct them. The matter was taken to the Manikpur police station. However, no action was taken against the woman. The CWC urged the police to register a case against the woman and arrest her, but the police did not act on it. On January 18, DNA reported how no action was taken against the Vasai resident.

The CWC did not give up and sent repeated summons to the Manikpur police station. Finally, on Tuesday, the police filed the FIR and informed the CWC. The police wanted the case to be filed at the CST railway police station, because the girls were rescued from there.

According to the CWC, on November 19, 2010, Nisha and Swati (names changed) were found crying at CST station by Bal Prafullata, an NGO.

The girls had run away from their homes (in Ahmedabad and Kolkata) only to come across a woman who promised to help. However, they found something amiss and escaped while they were being brought to Mumbai from Pune. The woman reportedly attempted to get one of the girls married to an old man.

Chandrakant Jadhav, senior police inspector, Manikpur Police station, said, “We filed the FIR against the woman and transferred it to the CST railway police station. We are hopeful of arresting the woman involved in this case.”

Shaila Mhatre, chairperson of CWC, said, “We always face issues regarding jurisdiction. The police usually file a ‘zero’ number FIR and transfer it to the concerned police station. In this case, they did not file the FIR for a long time. It was rather strange.”
DNAINDIA