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Sunday, July 19, 2015
Traffickers sell woman for 10 lakh; three arrested in Ahmedabad
Following a rap by Gujarat high court (HC) directing police to act in an alleged case of human trafficking, women cell of the city crime branch on Friday night arrested three including two women for allegedly selling off a 25-year-old woman in marriage to a Himmatnagar-based youth for Rs 10 lakhs.
Police have arrested Meena Mishra running a dance class in Isanpur area of Ahmedabad, her friend Rita Bangali and Ishwar Malhotra.
"There are 10 other accused in the case including Sanjay Patel, a 35-year old bachelor, to whom the woman was sold and forcibly married after money allegedly exchanged hands. Sanjay's uncle Dr Dixit Patel had allegedly given the girl medicine for abortion. He is also an accused," said assistant commissioner of police, women cell, Kanan Desai.
The victim has also alleged that she was confined and raped for one month by Sanjay. The woman belonged to the minority community and had changed her religion after she fell for a Hindu boy. She was also living with the boy's sister in Isanpur. In fact, she is reported to have continued living with her even after the boy broke up with her.
"The complainant has alleged that the boy's sister was in touch with Meena for the past few years. Meena was contacted by agents Vijay and Gunjesh to find a girl for Sanjay who was not being able to find a bride in his community. They promised handsome remuneration. This is a social manifestation of skewed sex ratio in Gujarat where many men are unable to find brides in their own community," said a police official. Meena convinced the boy's sister and lured her to send the victim with her for marriage.
The girl has alleged that she was sold off to Sanjay who married her forcibly. "The victim has alleged that she was then confined and raped for one month. Later, when she became pregnant Sanjay's uncle Dr Patel gave her abortion tablets," said the official.
The victim later escaped from the custody of her tormentors and approached a lawyer who took her to different police agencies. "However, as no action was taken we were compelled to knock the doors of Gujarat high court which directed women cell to file an FIR," said advocate Zahid Pathan.
Friday, August 23, 2013
Selling of three girls: youth rounded up
BHOPAL: Gandhi Nagar police on Wednesday rounded up a youth in connection with selling of three girls of the city in a village located near Ujjain.
However SHO of Gandhi Nagar Jitendra Singh Patel ruled out the possibilities of human trafficking and said an investigation into the case is on. SP ( North) Arvind Saxena said Sajjad Hussain, alias Master, has been taken into custody, after a woman Zareena alleged that her 24- year- old daughter Sameena was sold by the accused on July 11.
However, Saxena said it is too early to speculate the allegations made by the mother of the girl as during further investigation by Gandhi Nagar police it came to light that the daughter of the complainant, who is said to be married and mother of two children, was divorced. After being left by her husband, she is living with another person on her own in Bhopal only.
On being asked about the two other girls who were sold by the youth, Saxena told said an investigation into the case is underway. Whether it was a case of human trafficking or not will be clear only after the recovery of the girls. Recently, Zareena has lodged a complaint of abduction of her daughter against Sajjad at Gandhi Nagar police station.
In her complaint, she told the police that she used to work at a house owned by Sohail Khan and her daughter Zareena also used to go there to help her.
On July 11, at 1 pm, when her daughter returned home after the work, the youth abducted her. Later, when she reached Gandhi Nagar police station to lodge a complaint of abduction, the police only registered a complaint of missins person. Later, the woman, along with others, caught the youth from Faiz mosque and handed him over to the Gandhi Nagar police.
Later, it came to light that the accused also sold two other girls. However, police only said everything would come to light after the investigation.
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Wednesday, August 1, 2012
Delhi: 15-year-old girl abducted, sold and raped
New Delhi: The city police have arrested a couple from Mukundpur for allegedly kidnapping a 15-year-old girl from her residence at Bhalaswa Dairy. The couple had sold the minor girl at a prostitution den in Rohini. Even though police rescued the girl within 12 hours, she was raped twice -- by the accused Sunil Kumar and the owner of the prostitution den. The police has also arrested Sunil’s wife Aarti and an FIR has been registered in this regard. The owner of the Rohini establishment Rishi Arora is absconding. Delhi police had received a PCR call at around 8:10 pm on July 25 from a girl claiming that she had been sold off to traffickers by her neighbours. She had alleged that her neighbour Sunil and his wife Aarti had kidnapped her, taken her to Rohini and sold her to the den’s owner. The girl said that she was raped by Sunil even before he sold her off. The investigations revealed that the owner of the prostitution den Rishi had also raped her and when she reported the facts to Rishi’s wife, she beat her up. During interrogation Sunil Kumar and Aarti confessed to have committed the offence. Sunil is in police remand for two days and efforts are on to nab the co-accused Rishi and his wife. Three other cases of minors being raped have also been reported in the capital in the last 48 hours. A three-year-old girl was raped by a mason Om Prakash in the Ranhaula area of west Delhi. Another girl, a Class IX student from the Khayala area, was repeatedly raped by her neighbour. In the third incident, a 17-year-old girl was raped by her neighbour after he abducted her and took her to a farmhouse in Alipur in outer Delhi. All three accused have been nabbed. (With TOI inputs) |
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Woman rescued from human trafficking gang in Rajasthan
Jaipur, July 31 (IANS) A 30-year old woman was sent to a shelter home in Rajasthan’s Dholpur Monday after she was rescued from a human trafficking gang which had sold her to four different men over the past one year, police said.
A case of rape has been registered against at least six men, they added.
“The woman was rescued from Basaidaang area of Dholpur district Sunday. We had acted on a tip-off. No one could be arrested from the house as its occupants had fled at the time of the raid,” a police officer told IANS.
“The woman was rescued from Basaidaang area of Dholpur district Sunday. We had acted on a tip-off. No one could be arrested from the house as its occupants had fled at the time of the raid,” a police officer told IANS.
The officer said that the woman had eloped with a man whom she identifies as Rakesh Kumar about a year ago.
“However, Rakesh sold her to a man called Jeetu. It has come up during investigation that Jeetu sold her to four different men in Basaidaang area over the past one year. Each of them kept her for some time and then handed her over to Jeetu again. She has registered a case of rape against Rakesh, Jeetu and the four men,” said the officer.
“However, Rakesh sold her to a man called Jeetu. It has come up during investigation that Jeetu sold her to four different men in Basaidaang area over the past one year. Each of them kept her for some time and then handed her over to Jeetu again. She has registered a case of rape against Rakesh, Jeetu and the four men,” said the officer.
He added that the woman’s statements were recorded before a magistrate Monday in Dholpur, over 200 km from Jaipur.
“She was then sent to women shelter home here. Police teams have been rushed to various places in search of the members of the human trafficking gang,” said the officer.
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According to the police, the victim had eloped with a man she identified as Rajesh. Later, he (Rakesh) sold her to another man, identified as Jeetu, who later sold her to three different men in Basai Dang area.
Preliminary investigation suggests that the woman was sold for amounts varying from Rs 10,000 to Rs 20,000.
"We got a tip-off that the woman was kept hostage at a house situated in the area. A team raided the house and rescued her. The house occupants had fled during the raid," an officer said.
The four different men kept the woman for almost six months and recently handed her back to Jeetu.
"The woman has registered a case of abduction and rape against six accused and her statements under Section 164 of CrPC have been recorded before a judicial magistrate in Dholpur," the officer added.
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Sunday, July 8, 2012
Woman kept in cowshed, raped by hubby, kin in MP
BHOPAL: Unable to meet dowry demands of in-laws, a 20-year-old woman was allegedly kept locked in a cowshed for three years and repeatedly raped by her husband, his relatives and neighbours in a village in Sagar district of the state. The hapless woman faced sexual exploitation for 36 months till she was sold to a moneylender for Rs 50,000 this May as her parents were in no condition to pay dowry to in-laws. When she fell critically ill, a neighbour took her to a hospital, but he too allegedly raped her on the way. In a chance encounter, a relative of the victim spotted her at the moneylender's house and reported the matter to her father.
On July 1, the woman went to the Rahatgarh police station with her relatives and narrated the harrowing tale, leaving the police baffled. According to the office of the SP Sagar, the woman was married to Anand Kurmi of Parasri Tyonda village five years ago. Soon after the marriage, the in-laws allegedly began mentally and physically torturing her for more dowry. "They had demanded Rs one lakh during the wedding, which we paid,'' said victim's father Ram Kisan, a farmer with a meagre land holding of 2.5 acre.
"But they kept making demands even after the marriage. They wanted a colour television, motorbike, tractor and Rs one lakh more in cash. They would beat my daughter and wouldn't give her food," he said. When the girl, then aged 16, got pregnant - the in-laws, including brother-in-law Niraj, his wife Uma Bai and mother-in-law Kala Bai forced her to abort the child. Two years after the marriage, the in-laws decided that she was no longer going to live with them in the same house.
The life of the hapless woman was even beyond the imagination of a Bollywood script writer. The in-laws locked the girl, then 16 and pregnant, with cows and buffaloes in the cowshed. For days on end, she had to go without food and water. A neighbour, identified as Guddu Maharaj and his friends, repeatedly raped her for months in the cowshed.
Husband Anand Kurmi, in the meantime, allegedly shifted the victim to a relative's house in Khurai 25 km away. Here, the relative, a middle-aged Ram Singh and his sons Narendra and Lokendra did not spare the girl. Father and sons allegedly locked the girl in the house and raped her for more than 20 days. The barbarity did not stop at it. Ram Singh sold the victim to a moneylender Dwarka Prasad from Mahuna village near Khurai in May this year. Ram Singh claimed he was the father of the girl and the deal was finalised for Rs 50,000 in cash and one acre land in Mahuna. The young woman's troubles did not end and her sexual exploitation continued. When she fell critically ill one day, a neighbour in Mahuna village, identified as Khadak Singh, assured that he would take to a hospital for treatment. But on the way to the health centre, the woman was raped by him. She was brought back to the moneylender's house where by sheer chance, a cousin of her spotted the woman.
"We kept visiting her in-law's residence in Parasri Tyonda," said Ram Kisan, his voice choked as he spoke. "They said we could not meet her till we gave the dowry. I did not have the faintest idea that my daughter was going through hell. Then word reached us that she was in a moneylender's house in Khurai and had been sold. This made the family to rush and rescue her from the monsters," he added.
On June 28, the victim was rescued by her family members and brought to her father's house in Madhdevra village. Two days later, they decided to go to the police and report the matter. Police registered a case against ten persons, including husband, in-laws and others under Sections 498A (husband or his relative subjecting a woman to cruelty), 372 (selling minor for purpose of prostitution), 376 (rape), 363 (kidnapping), 366 (kidnapping, abducting or inducing woman to compel her marriage), 450 (house trespass), 294 (obscenity), 506 (criminal intimidation), 34 (common intention) of the IPC. Police arrested three of the accused, including Khadak Singh, who raped her on the way to the health centre, moneylender Dwarka Prasad and Ram Singh, who sold the victim.
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Friday, October 14, 2011
India is home of unspeakable crimes against women
Three African women have won the Nobel peace prize this year for raising effective protest voices against the discrimination and oppression of their gender in highly hostile and conservative surroundings. Who is doing the same in our country which was recently bracketed by the United Nations as the top two nations recording majority of ''117 million missing girls'' in Asia?
Amid empty talk of ‘empowerment of women’—rapes have become a routine affair with girl-children or teenagers being regularly targeted in every city, town or rural area. It is as if wolves have been set on the second-sex – feticide to outright killing.
A steep decline in the quality of governance, proportionate rise in public inertia and self-centered attitude or simple indifference of the public has made matters worse for women, particularly from the Dalit segment which remains most vulnerable against muscle, money and political powers of the intermediate caste with dominant feudal tendencies.
If on the one hand it is uninterrupted ‘honour killing’ against girls seeking to assert their independence in their personal lives, on the other it is the wanton outrage of modesty with no counter-action from the state or the society at large. Instances of poor and lower-caste women resisting rape and then disfigured with thier nose, hands or other body parts chopped are not few and far between -- some are reported but a large majority go unnoticed. In some states, ministers are themselves accused of rape.
At the ground level, women occupying high posts as head of state, prime minister, speaker, leader of opposition, chief of political party or holding other constitutional posts in the country is not making any material difference in the abysmal condition of the same gender.
Not a day passes when unspeakable crimes like rape, gang-rape or simple butchering of the victims are not reported from bustling cities and villages. There seems to be no safety for women of any age group unless they are protected by bodyguards. And these are a few privileged women in high-end jobs or business, politics or Bollywood.
The tilt against women have roots going back to centuries.
The insecurity (monitory or otherwise) relating to girl-child vis-à-vis a male one is further reinforced by moth-eaten traditions and beliefs. Education has not made any desirable change in the attitudes. The transparently hypocrite ‘educated middle class’ goes to Singapore and Thailand for sex determination tests. Some top film stars have also reportedly flown to these countries ‘to work out’ a male progeny.
False prestige
The so called ‘liberated class’ gives dowry to their daughters as a matter of false prestige when it has options available to make them stand on their feet so that they could make independent choices. There are lakhs of instances where rich parents of daughters have paid crores of rupees succumbing to the ‘black mail’ of in-laws or that of the husband but did not have the courage to bring their daughters back home (the fear of societal stigma!).
The end result in a majority of such cases is no secret – daughters are done to death by in-laws lusting for more money. This is the case with the city-based ‘modern, English speaking Indians’ who would otherwise be swearing by the western life style, thought and ‘individual independence.’
The cumulative outcome is that India has one of the largest incidents of female foeticide. The country has the dubious distinction of having one of the biggest girl-child prostitution in the world. In the list of annual missing (abducted) children (estimated to be around 70,000 each year) girl children are the majority.
The systemic brutality against the girl-child has, over a period, led to an imbalance in the sex ratio, with Haryana – the citadel of public lynching of women -- having the highest skewed ratio (877 women against 1,000 men). It is no better in Punjab, Delhi, Maharashtra and other states the northern India.
Haryana’s infamous ‘khap panchayats’ which order ‘honour killings’ of young couples marrying against the wishes of their elders, has the blessings of the political class, playing regressive politics of vote bank even after 63 years of independence and in spite of the Supreme Court’s scathing remarks on ‘khaps.’ One of the young Congress MPs, Naveen Jindal, has openly defended the ‘khaps’.
The irony is that there is not even a semblance of a pro-active step from governments, human rights organisations, women’s organisations or women politicians to bring a visible major policy shift in respect of administration of justice, law and order and change in the functioning of police which has a mindset tilted against working or ‘liberated women.’
Women’s organisations or government bodies step into the scene only if a rich or a celebrity is involved or if media continues to focus on the issue that is ‘encashable’. The concerns of these ‘professional bodies’ fade-out swiftly once the electronic media in particular switches off its camera on the victim.
Women, otherwise, portrayed in hyperbole terms in religious texts, literature and traditions of the country remain prisoners of time, traditions, political games and the rising consumerist web. There is no ‘safe exit’ for her even though she may be a city-based working women or an uneducated village women drawing water from a pond.
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Amid empty talk of ‘empowerment of women’—rapes have become a routine affair with girl-children or teenagers being regularly targeted in every city, town or rural area. It is as if wolves have been set on the second-sex – feticide to outright killing.
A steep decline in the quality of governance, proportionate rise in public inertia and self-centered attitude or simple indifference of the public has made matters worse for women, particularly from the Dalit segment which remains most vulnerable against muscle, money and political powers of the intermediate caste with dominant feudal tendencies.
If on the one hand it is uninterrupted ‘honour killing’ against girls seeking to assert their independence in their personal lives, on the other it is the wanton outrage of modesty with no counter-action from the state or the society at large. Instances of poor and lower-caste women resisting rape and then disfigured with thier nose, hands or other body parts chopped are not few and far between -- some are reported but a large majority go unnoticed. In some states, ministers are themselves accused of rape.
At the ground level, women occupying high posts as head of state, prime minister, speaker, leader of opposition, chief of political party or holding other constitutional posts in the country is not making any material difference in the abysmal condition of the same gender.
Not a day passes when unspeakable crimes like rape, gang-rape or simple butchering of the victims are not reported from bustling cities and villages. There seems to be no safety for women of any age group unless they are protected by bodyguards. And these are a few privileged women in high-end jobs or business, politics or Bollywood.
The tilt against women have roots going back to centuries.
The insecurity (monitory or otherwise) relating to girl-child vis-à-vis a male one is further reinforced by moth-eaten traditions and beliefs. Education has not made any desirable change in the attitudes. The transparently hypocrite ‘educated middle class’ goes to Singapore and Thailand for sex determination tests. Some top film stars have also reportedly flown to these countries ‘to work out’ a male progeny.
False prestige
The so called ‘liberated class’ gives dowry to their daughters as a matter of false prestige when it has options available to make them stand on their feet so that they could make independent choices. There are lakhs of instances where rich parents of daughters have paid crores of rupees succumbing to the ‘black mail’ of in-laws or that of the husband but did not have the courage to bring their daughters back home (the fear of societal stigma!).
The end result in a majority of such cases is no secret – daughters are done to death by in-laws lusting for more money. This is the case with the city-based ‘modern, English speaking Indians’ who would otherwise be swearing by the western life style, thought and ‘individual independence.’
The cumulative outcome is that India has one of the largest incidents of female foeticide. The country has the dubious distinction of having one of the biggest girl-child prostitution in the world. In the list of annual missing (abducted) children (estimated to be around 70,000 each year) girl children are the majority.
The systemic brutality against the girl-child has, over a period, led to an imbalance in the sex ratio, with Haryana – the citadel of public lynching of women -- having the highest skewed ratio (877 women against 1,000 men). It is no better in Punjab, Delhi, Maharashtra and other states the northern India.
Haryana’s infamous ‘khap panchayats’ which order ‘honour killings’ of young couples marrying against the wishes of their elders, has the blessings of the political class, playing regressive politics of vote bank even after 63 years of independence and in spite of the Supreme Court’s scathing remarks on ‘khaps.’ One of the young Congress MPs, Naveen Jindal, has openly defended the ‘khaps’.
The irony is that there is not even a semblance of a pro-active step from governments, human rights organisations, women’s organisations or women politicians to bring a visible major policy shift in respect of administration of justice, law and order and change in the functioning of police which has a mindset tilted against working or ‘liberated women.’
Women’s organisations or government bodies step into the scene only if a rich or a celebrity is involved or if media continues to focus on the issue that is ‘encashable’. The concerns of these ‘professional bodies’ fade-out swiftly once the electronic media in particular switches off its camera on the victim.
Women, otherwise, portrayed in hyperbole terms in religious texts, literature and traditions of the country remain prisoners of time, traditions, political games and the rising consumerist web. There is no ‘safe exit’ for her even though she may be a city-based working women or an uneducated village women drawing water from a pond.
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Thursday, October 6, 2011
Tortured & raped woman fights for justice in Ajmer
AJMER: A woman belonging to the minority community stood steadfast against society when her husband "sold" her to another man for money and she was repeatedly raped for three long months. The local panchayat remained mute when her in-laws openly stripped her and her hair was cut. The patience of the semi-literate woman ended when her two-year-old daughter was snatched and taken to Raipur for child marriage. She went to Beawar police station and a case is registered against 24 villagers for dowry harassment, rape and "selling" a woman.
A tearful victim told TOI on Wednesday, that "even after registration of FIR, nothing has been done by the police in the last 15 days. I am hiding to save my life from them as they are hunting for me everywhere." She went to newly appointed superintendent of police Rajesh Meena who assured her safety and action against the accused.
According to the victim, she was married to Sabeer son of Nemaji Kathat, resident of a remote village Gunda ka Bala of Beawer block on April 15, 2006.
"They harassed me and demanded I bring money from my father as Sabeer wanted to start a new business," she said. Her in-laws were enraged when she gave birth to a girl and demanded money to bring-up the girl in their house, she added.
"My husband sold me to Ajad, son of Roshan of the same village on June 12, 2011 and he took me to a house where Ajad locked me and raped me for three months" she cried. She was freed in first week of September when she returned to her husband.
"They called a panchayat and stripped me accusing me of being characterless, blackened my face and cut my hairs," the victim told TOI in tears.
This was not the end to her ordeal. While the victim was crying after the ill-treatment, her husband snatched her two-year-old daughter from her. "They took my daughter to Raipur where they arranged a 'nikah' (marriage) of my daughter. I got pregnant after three month rape and they aborted the baby." The victim went to her father in Rupnager village and there she came to know that her daughter is in nearby Chittar village.
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A tearful victim told TOI on Wednesday, that "even after registration of FIR, nothing has been done by the police in the last 15 days. I am hiding to save my life from them as they are hunting for me everywhere." She went to newly appointed superintendent of police Rajesh Meena who assured her safety and action against the accused.
According to the victim, she was married to Sabeer son of Nemaji Kathat, resident of a remote village Gunda ka Bala of Beawer block on April 15, 2006.
"They harassed me and demanded I bring money from my father as Sabeer wanted to start a new business," she said. Her in-laws were enraged when she gave birth to a girl and demanded money to bring-up the girl in their house, she added.
"My husband sold me to Ajad, son of Roshan of the same village on June 12, 2011 and he took me to a house where Ajad locked me and raped me for three months" she cried. She was freed in first week of September when she returned to her husband.
"They called a panchayat and stripped me accusing me of being characterless, blackened my face and cut my hairs," the victim told TOI in tears.
This was not the end to her ordeal. While the victim was crying after the ill-treatment, her husband snatched her two-year-old daughter from her. "They took my daughter to Raipur where they arranged a 'nikah' (marriage) of my daughter. I got pregnant after three month rape and they aborted the baby." The victim went to her father in Rupnager village and there she came to know that her daughter is in nearby Chittar village.
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Sunday, October 2, 2011
Man arrested for human trafficking
An Albuquerque man was arrested after he tried to sell a minor to an undercover agent.Kendel Merrell is behind bars after he tried to sell a 17-year-old girl for $3,000 at a, "human trafficking party,” the Albuquerque Police Department said.
Police said Merrell "groomed,” the teen for prostitution but she was able to break away and call for help.
The woman’s mother called police after her daughter telephoned her panicked and distressed.
The daughter called her mom and said, 'Mom, call me back at this number and tell me there's a family emergency and I have to come right now,’’ an APD sergeant said.
KOB Eyewitness News 4 talked to a sergeant who worked on the case.
For his safety we've protected his identity.
According to police, the trouble started on Facebook.
Merrell, 22, added the 17-year-old to his list of friends.
At one point the girl posted something about needing a work.
Merrell jumped in and said she could work for him, selling hip-hop magazines and CDs.
"He told her things like, 'Tell your mom that this is a 24 hour a day job and 7 days a week,’” police said.
According to police, the two met up and the situation escalated.
Merrell reportedly forced her to have sex with him. He then allegedly sold her for $150 and said she could keep $50.
He threatened, "If you don't do this, I will have my friends take care of you,” police said.
Soon enough, the girl found herself at the human trafficking party.
"Kendel took her to a place where there were several men present and he intimidated her and told her, 'You're going to be there, you're not going to look at any of them in the eye. I want you to keep your mouth shut,’” police said.
APD said Merrell offered to sell her for $3,000 for as much sex as three days could allow.
At one point during the party she was able to get away from Merrell and leave.
That's when she called her mom for help.
Merrell is charged with human trafficking, criminal sexual penetration and sexual exploitation of a child.
APD said they're still investigating the case and looking into Merrell's close friends, but they don't think this was a large-scale operation.
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Friday, September 30, 2011
15-year-old girl married off to money lender
A 15-year-old school girl was allegedly married off to a 28-year-old money lender as his second wife by her tribal family in Orthanadu in Thanjavur as they were unable to repay a debt of Rs 10,000.
Villagers said that Ramya (name changed), complained of sexual abuse by her ‘husband’.
“Ramya’s father took a loan from Murugan six months ago but could not repay the loan. Murugan told the family that if they did not repay the money, Ramya had to be married off to him after she attained puberty,” said Orthanadu police personnel.
“The family members confessed that they had ‘fixed’ the marriage recently. However, when we interrogated them, they denied that the wedding was performed,” said Orthanadu SI Veerasamy.
Residents of Narikurava colony said on condition of anonymity that relatives had attended the wedding two weeks ago.
“The moneylender forced the family to get the girl married to him. She should be rescued and taken care of by the government,” said the villagers.
The villagers said that Ramya was good at her studies but had stopped going to school in June.
“Teachers from her school, who wanted to visit Ramya, were not allowed to talk to her. Three other girls from the school have also discontinued studies,” they said.
Social welfare minister Selvi Ramajayam told DC that she would take action to rescue the girl.
“It is shocking that a minor girl was married off to a moneylender as a barter for a loan. I will ask my officers to rescue the girl,” she said.
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Villagers said that Ramya (name changed), complained of sexual abuse by her ‘husband’.
“Ramya’s father took a loan from Murugan six months ago but could not repay the loan. Murugan told the family that if they did not repay the money, Ramya had to be married off to him after she attained puberty,” said Orthanadu police personnel.
“The family members confessed that they had ‘fixed’ the marriage recently. However, when we interrogated them, they denied that the wedding was performed,” said Orthanadu SI Veerasamy.
Residents of Narikurava colony said on condition of anonymity that relatives had attended the wedding two weeks ago.
“The moneylender forced the family to get the girl married to him. She should be rescued and taken care of by the government,” said the villagers.
The villagers said that Ramya was good at her studies but had stopped going to school in June.
“Teachers from her school, who wanted to visit Ramya, were not allowed to talk to her. Three other girls from the school have also discontinued studies,” they said.
Social welfare minister Selvi Ramajayam told DC that she would take action to rescue the girl.
“It is shocking that a minor girl was married off to a moneylender as a barter for a loan. I will ask my officers to rescue the girl,” she said.
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Rescued from red-light districts, stuck in red tape
Even after being rescued from brothels, only 10 per cent of trafficked immigrants from Bangladesh make it home every year, owing to a lengthy repatriation procedure, that is fraught with bureaucratic formalities
Two years ago, a 15-year-old Reshma (name changed) was a young teenager living in the Jessore district in Bangladesh, looking for a way to deliver her family from grinding penury. When a distant relative offered her a job in Mumbai, she decided to grab the opportunity.
Help at hand: The officials of Rescue Foundation train the Bangladeshi
girls who were rescued from the city's brothels. They are being sheltered
at Kandivli. PICS/SAYED SAMEER ABEDI
(Faces have been blurred to protect their identities)
The starry-eyed girl came to the city of her dreams, only to have them quickly cut short, when she was sold to a brothel by her relative. Luckily, Reshma was soon rescued by an NGO, and cops temporarily sheltered her at Kandivli's Rescue Foundation. It has now been two years since her rescue, but for Reshma, who recently turned 17, life has become one long wait to return home, as officials dilly dally over endless bureaucratic formalities.
A beleaguered Reshma has now given up hope. Almost 103 other girls, each rescued from city brothels, have similar stories to tell, as they languish in homes across the state.
According to workers of the NGO Rescue Foundation, which regularly raids city brothels, the procedure for the repatriation of rescued girls to Bangladesh is mired in so much red tape that they manage to reunite only 10 of every 100 rescued girls with their families each year.
This year, the NGO in collaboration with the police have rescued 103 Bangladeshi immigrants. A foundation member revealed that these girls, who are mostly minors, were lured into the country on false promises -- of job opportunities or marriage.
"The authorities manning the borders are often bribed to secure an entry for these girls," said Triveni Acharya, president, Rescue Foundation. She added, "Bangladesh is a poverty-stricken country. The traffickers brainwash the girls' parents by painting an attractive picture of a luxurious life in Mumbai. Some of these girls harbour aspirations of making it big in Bollywood. Many of them are brought to red-light areas like Kamathipura and Sonapur in Bhandup, in exchange for sums like Rs 10,000-20,000."
Too much red tape
After being rescued, the immigrants are sent to shelters, till arrangements for their return can be made. And then begins the prolonged and elusive journey home, which often ends in disappointment.
The rescuing NGO first makes an inventory of the rescued girls, attaching case studies alongside, which are then forwarded to the Ministry of Women and Child Development. Once their approval is obtained, they are delivered to NGOs in Bangladesh for Home Investigation Reports, in course of which a thorough background check is conducted, to establish the identity of the girls. After this, the Bangladesh-based NGOs sends their final reports to the Bangladesh High Commission.
Once the commission reverts with its approval, the Mumbai NGO sends a report to the ministry once again. Only after a no-objection certificate is sent back, does the NGO transfer the girl to the country.
As the process is lengthy and fraught with bureaucratic hurdles, months, and even years pass before the girls set foot on Bangladeshi soil. "Sometimes the girls have to wait for months, aching to go home, but do not get their NOCs from the government. Some of them lie about their identities or place of birth, making it difficult for the NGO to trace their parents. At other times, these girls have to act as witnesses, and are ordered by the police to stay on till they appear in court. In some cases, their background checks fall through, and they have to stay on in the homes. In such cases, they are rehabilitated here, and given jobs," said Kavita Saxena, who manages the legal section of the NGO, adding, "We cannot circumvent any of these formalities, and can be prosecuted if any discrepancies are found."
Officialspeak
Badruddin, an official of the Women and Child Welfare department at the Bangladesh High Commission in Delhi,
said, "We have to work according to the procedures laid down, as that is our duty. I cannot comment
on why the procedure takes so long."
Ravi Patil, deputy commissioner of the Women and Child Welfare department, was not available for comment.
Wednesday, September 28, 2011
Teacher tries to sell girl to brothel, held
KOLKATA: Seema Pramanik (name changed) had thought she had escaped the murky world of flesh trade forever when three years ago, she was 'rescued' by a kind-hearted client, with promises of marriage and a life of respect.
Her world came crashing down two days back, when she found herself back in the same world, brought there by none other than her 'rescuer'. Seema, 25, remained confined in a room in the red-light area of Sonagachi for two days, till police rescued her on Tuesday afternoon along with her 10-year-old son.
Seema, who hailed from Bongaon, was married off when she was only 15. Her husband died a few years later, leaving her to fend for herself and her son. Taking advantage of her situation, a neighbour brought her to Kolkata six years ago, luring her with the promise of a job. She was sold to a brothel instead. Seema reconciled to her fate and started working as a sex worker. After some time, she saw a saviour in one of her clients, primary school teacher Biman Bose (59).
The teacher from Kalyani, who claimed to be a divorcee, professed love for the girl, promised to marry her and adopt her son. For Seema, this was a ticket to freedom. So, despite Bose being 34 years senior to her, Seema readily gave her consent and accompanied him to his Kalyani apartment three years ago.
"The marriage never took place and he introduced me as a domestic help to his relatives. But since he kept me and my son in his house and provided us with food, I did not protest. In any case, it was much better than living in the brothel," recalled Seema at Girish Park police station on Tuesday. This also made her silently endure sexual exploitation by Bose.
But of late, Bose had started telling Seema that she would be sent back to Sonagachi once again. "On Saturday, he told me that he would take me and my son to Kolkata to shop for Durga Puja. I was very happy thinking he had had a change of heart and accompanied him with my son to Kolkata on Sunday," Seema told TOI.
Her happiness did not last for long, however, and she found herself back in Sonagachi, confined in a room and under constant watch. Seema knew that before long, she would be sold off once again. But this time, she was desperate for freedom. Early on Tuesday, when Bose was in deep sleep, she managed to sneak out of the house for a few minutes to call up a friend from an STD booth. The friend informed Prantakatha, an NGO.
Around 9 am, a team from Girish Park PS, accompanied by a volunteers of Prantakhata, raided 177 Ramesh Dutta Street and rescued Seema and her son. Bose and house owner Sandhya Das (45) were detained. "The main accused and the house owner are being interrogated," said an officer of Girish Park police station.
"The girl broke into tears when we entered the house. She relaxed only when she reached the police station," said Prantakatha volunteer Tawkeer Hasan. A visibly relieved Seema said: "Life as a sex worker was hell. I don't want to go back to that profession at any cost.
I am grateful that I was rescued before they could sell me off to a brothel again."
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Human trafficking: Abducted women auctioned off to highest bidder
MULTAN: Police officials have arrested two members of a gang ofhuman traffickers responsible for kidnapping women and selling them off to the highest bidder.
According to police officials, they recovered two women from the site but two of the gang members managed to escape. “One of the gang members who escaped was a woman who was responsible for identifying the women and making contact with them.
She used to convince the women that they should invest in her business and eventually she would call them out of their home on some pretext or other and then the remaining gang members took them away,” said a police inspector.
According to police official, Qasim Bela residents Dilawar and his brother Waseem Abbas headed the gang with former lady counselor Razia. “They used to travel to different villages and she was posing as a family planning centre counselor. Then she would begin talking about business propositions and how if I invested with her I would be able to set up my own business within two months,” said trafficking victim Tasleem Bibi.
Tasleem Bibi said that Razia visited her on August 18 at her home in Faisalabad tehsil Adda Satiana. “She had been visiting me for a week and I thought we became friends. All the while, she was watching my movements to see when my father was not at home. On August 18, she drugged me and her gang abducted me,” she told police. “When I woke up I was in Multan and I was being sold to a Hamidpur resident named Allah Datta for Rs 30,000,” she said.
Tasleem told reporters and police that there were four other women with her when the bidding started. “There was a large room and it was late at night. Seven men were bidding on which one of us would go with them,” she said. Tasleem said that she had remained with Allah Datta for six months. “He kept me locked in a room and raped me several times. His brother had also purchased a woman the same day but they were living somewhere else,” she said. Tasleem said that she was about to be sold a second time in a different location when the police came.
“They took me to another village and I was blindfolded but I could hear that they had begun bidding again, so I figured they would be selling me to someone new. That was when the police team arrived,” she said.
Muzaffarabad police raided a site outside Vehari on Monday night and apprehended two gang members Dilawar and Waseem Abbas. “Two of the female members of the gang managed to escape.
We have police teams searching for Razia and Irshad Bibi” inspector Asim Kando said. Police officials said that they had also apprehended one of the men bidding on the women and taken him in for questioning. “We only recovered Tasleem but she told us that there had been at least six other women who had been abducted by the gang,” he said.
“We are conducting a thorough inquiry into the incident and we will find out where else the gang has been operating,” he added.
Owner of modelling agency suspected of tricking women into performing in sex shows
Joensuu man suspected of crimes including rape and aggravated human trafficking
Police suspect that the director of a Finnish modelling agency has taken sexual advantage of a number of young women in different parts of Finland.
The 48-year-old man from Joensuu is suspected of aggravated human trafficking, rape, and sexual abuse. The suspected crimes are said to have taken place between late 2009 and early 2011.
Police say that one woman became the victim of aggravated human trafficking, and five were raped.
There are at least 13 alleged victims, two of whom are underage. The youngest of the victims was 16 and the oldest were slightly over 20, says Chief Detective Superintendent Petri Rainiala of the drugs unit of the Helsinki Police.
Police say that the women had been enticed into the activities by offering them modelling work. One of the channels that was used was the website of the Ministry of Employment and the Economy.
Some of the women also took part in a modelling contest organised by the agency.
The actual work proved to differ significantly from that of a professional model. After signing the contract, test photos were taken of the women in little or no clothing, and work opportunities were primarily for strip shows and other erotic performances.
“For instance, the women were told that they would be modelling lingerie, and the event turned out to be a sex performance”, Rainiala says.
The suspicion of aggravated human trafficking stems from a situation in which the victim was allegedly had to perform sexual acts in private performances, for instance.
“There have been threats and actions that can be considered violent.”
Police say that rapes occurred in connection with performance tours. Sexual abuse also allegedly took place during photo shoots.
“The victims found the photo shoots to be very oppressive and unpleasant. Some refused to take part, but not all of them were capable of refusing”, Rainiala says.
The main suspect has been in custody since May. In addition to him, a man under the age of 30 has been remanded, suspected of two rapes. Rainiala says that the man himself had taken part in an erotic performance.
Rainiala cannot say how many women have been on the lists of the agency. Nearly 20 of them have been interviewed by police during the investigation.
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Police suspect that the director of a Finnish modelling agency has taken sexual advantage of a number of young women in different parts of Finland.
The 48-year-old man from Joensuu is suspected of aggravated human trafficking, rape, and sexual abuse. The suspected crimes are said to have taken place between late 2009 and early 2011.
Police say that one woman became the victim of aggravated human trafficking, and five were raped.
There are at least 13 alleged victims, two of whom are underage. The youngest of the victims was 16 and the oldest were slightly over 20, says Chief Detective Superintendent Petri Rainiala of the drugs unit of the Helsinki Police.
Police say that the women had been enticed into the activities by offering them modelling work. One of the channels that was used was the website of the Ministry of Employment and the Economy.
Some of the women also took part in a modelling contest organised by the agency.
The actual work proved to differ significantly from that of a professional model. After signing the contract, test photos were taken of the women in little or no clothing, and work opportunities were primarily for strip shows and other erotic performances.
“For instance, the women were told that they would be modelling lingerie, and the event turned out to be a sex performance”, Rainiala says.
The suspicion of aggravated human trafficking stems from a situation in which the victim was allegedly had to perform sexual acts in private performances, for instance.
“There have been threats and actions that can be considered violent.”
Police say that rapes occurred in connection with performance tours. Sexual abuse also allegedly took place during photo shoots.
“The victims found the photo shoots to be very oppressive and unpleasant. Some refused to take part, but not all of them were capable of refusing”, Rainiala says.
The main suspect has been in custody since May. In addition to him, a man under the age of 30 has been remanded, suspected of two rapes. Rainiala says that the man himself had taken part in an erotic performance.
Rainiala cannot say how many women have been on the lists of the agency. Nearly 20 of them have been interviewed by police during the investigation.
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Monday, September 26, 2011
3 girls rescued while being trafficked
CHITTAGONG, SEPT 25: Rapid Action Battalion (RAB) rescued three teenaged girls from illegal prostitution at Khulshi area in Chittagong on Saturday night. RAB also arrested Shelly Akter, the godmother of the illegal prostitution during the drive. According to RAB sources, acting on a tip off, a team of RAB-7 conducted a drive at a flat of Jahanara Mansion on Jakir Hossen Road at Khilshi area and recovered the three teenaged girls on Saturday night.
They had been compelled to get involved in prostitution by Shelly Akter for last three months after being trafficked there by some brokers, the sources said.
The RAB sources said that some brokers are trafficking teenaged girls of poor families in the villages by tempting them with good jobs or in guise of boyfriends. Talking to The Independent three victim girls describe how they were trafficked and tortured to compel them to get involved in prostitution.
Jhorna (disguised name), a 16 year old girl of poor family, was brought to Chittagong city from a village of Chakaria upazila with the promise of good jobs in garments factory by a broker Shahabuddin and sold to Shelly few months ago. She was tortured and compelled to be a prostitute.
Fortunately she got rid of Shelly after passing one month of hell but she had to get back to the hell unwillingly as she was not socially accepted.
Shathi (disguised name), 18, one of the recovered girls, told The Independent that she was promised marriage by her boyfriend Akber who took her to Shelly Akter and left the place where she was raped and tortured to get involved in prostitution. “I didn’t know that I was sold to Shelly by my boyfriend,” she said
Shumi, (disguised name) another girl aging 15, used live with her sister and read in class nine in a school at Madarbari area. One day she got out of home with two friends who took her to meet with a so called sister in law and sold her to the godmother Shelly.
Later she was tortured and locked in bathroom for hours to compel her to get involved in prostitution. At the initial interrogation, the arrested godmother Shelly said that she had been doing prostitution for last three years and for that she rented a flat for Taka 14000 at Khulshi area.
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They had been compelled to get involved in prostitution by Shelly Akter for last three months after being trafficked there by some brokers, the sources said.
The RAB sources said that some brokers are trafficking teenaged girls of poor families in the villages by tempting them with good jobs or in guise of boyfriends. Talking to The Independent three victim girls describe how they were trafficked and tortured to compel them to get involved in prostitution.
Jhorna (disguised name), a 16 year old girl of poor family, was brought to Chittagong city from a village of Chakaria upazila with the promise of good jobs in garments factory by a broker Shahabuddin and sold to Shelly few months ago. She was tortured and compelled to be a prostitute.
Fortunately she got rid of Shelly after passing one month of hell but she had to get back to the hell unwillingly as she was not socially accepted.
Shathi (disguised name), 18, one of the recovered girls, told The Independent that she was promised marriage by her boyfriend Akber who took her to Shelly Akter and left the place where she was raped and tortured to get involved in prostitution. “I didn’t know that I was sold to Shelly by my boyfriend,” she said
Shumi, (disguised name) another girl aging 15, used live with her sister and read in class nine in a school at Madarbari area. One day she got out of home with two friends who took her to meet with a so called sister in law and sold her to the godmother Shelly.
Later she was tortured and locked in bathroom for hours to compel her to get involved in prostitution. At the initial interrogation, the arrested godmother Shelly said that she had been doing prostitution for last three years and for that she rented a flat for Taka 14000 at Khulshi area.
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Friday, September 23, 2011
Ukrainian Woman Testifies She Was Victim Of Human Trafficking Ring
PHILADELPHIA (CBS) – A Ukrainian woman has testified she was threatened, beaten and raped by a man who helped smuggle her into the United States with the promise of a better life here. The defendant and his brother are on trial, charged with running a human trafficking operation.The woman has testified she initially believed she’d be brought here legally, but instead she and others sneaked across the Mexican border and were transported to Philadelphia. And immediately, she says, speaking through an interpreter, defendant Omelyan Botsvynyuk started abusing her.
“He began to walk, pace around me and he began to touch certain things saying, ‘its ok, I kind of like it’ and he was treating me as a thing, not a person.”
Later that day, she says, he raped her, “I was screaming. He would shut my mouth with a pillow. He was hitting me.”
Prosecutor: “Did he attack you sexually?”
Witness: “Yes.”
Prosecutor: “Did Mr. Omelyan Botsvynyuk rape you?”
Witness: “Yes.”
The defense has challenged her credibility, emphasizing she never told anyone about the rape a decade ago — not her sister or then boyfriend, now husband — until just recently. Both defendants have pleaded not guilty.
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Thursday, September 22, 2011
Sexual assault: Girl kidnapped, sold and gang raped for 15 days
" He kept me locked up in the basement and he and his men raped me for 15 days. They kept insisting I sign some documents but I refused," Victim Asiya Bibi.KHANEWAL: A young girl was abducted and gang raped after she refused to marry the man she was sold to.
According to police officials, Khanewal tehsil Jahanian Teen Marla Scheme resident Asiya Bibi was abducted by her neighbour Sajid and his accomplice Riaz Alvi. “They took me from my home nearly three weeks ago.
I was asleep and they gagged me. They kept me in a dark room for several hours before selling me off,” Asiya told reporters.
According to police officials, Asiya was later sold for Rs300,000 to Abid Majeed. “He kept me locked up in the basement and he and his men raped me for 15 days. They kept insisting I sign some documents but I refused and then he said that I would have to submit to him whether or not I agreed to marry him,” she said. “He beat me and used soldering irons to mark my body because I kept refusing him,” she added.
Asiya said that Abid’s house was in Jahanian. “I was brought there in a truck and I was blindfolded,” she said. Asiya told reporters that she fled Abid’s house three days ago and reached her village, where a panchyat headed by Rao Muhammad Abrar and Rao Shahid Iqbal declared the accused Sajid, Riaz and Abid guilty.
“Then I approached police but they refused to register a case even after I produced a medical certificate proving I had been raped,” she said, adding “they haven’t caught my kidnappers. They took Abid into custody but released him a day later.”
The panchayat also imposed a fine of Rs100,000 on the accused and demanded that they leave the area. Asiya’s sister Zarina filed an application with the court and the court has ordered police officials to register a case. Jahanian police officials said that they had registered a case after a medical report but the accused had not been arrested. “We took Abid in for questioning but he denied the charges. He said that he was not even in the district at the time of the incident and we have verified his statements. That is why we let him go,” inspector Basit Shakeel said.
All names have been changed to protect the victim’s identity
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Tuesday, September 20, 2011
Inter-state human trafficking gang busted, 3 arrested
The adverse sex ration and non availability of matrimonial match in Haryana gave a three-member inter-state human trafficking racket a chance to earn quick bucks by kidnapping or luring minor girls and selling them to potential customers.
On Tuesday, the northeast Delhi police smashed the gang and arrested its two female members and a male beneficiary.
Police also rescued a 14-year-old girl, who was kidnapped from Delhi's Seelampur area and sold to a divorcee—a so-called groom—in Kurukshetra for Rs70,000.
The gang, led by a woman, has allegedly supplied more than 15 girls to various parts in Haryana. The arrested have been identified as Sanjida (44), the kingpin, Aashiya (50) and Randhir Singh (32). Singh was the beneficiary of the rescued minor girl.
Sanjay Kumar Jain, deputy commissioner of police (northeast) said the racket was busted following an investigation into the kidnapping of the rescued minor girl.
"The girl's father had suspicion that his daughter was lured by someone. We got a clue about the whereabouts of the victim through a phone call and she was rescued from a village in Kurukshetra," said Jain.
According to Jain, the gang mainly lured vulnerable girls belonging to lower strata either by giving them false assurance of jobs or by threatening them or their family members.
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On Tuesday, the northeast Delhi police smashed the gang and arrested its two female members and a male beneficiary.
Police also rescued a 14-year-old girl, who was kidnapped from Delhi's Seelampur area and sold to a divorcee—a so-called groom—in Kurukshetra for Rs70,000.
The gang, led by a woman, has allegedly supplied more than 15 girls to various parts in Haryana. The arrested have been identified as Sanjida (44), the kingpin, Aashiya (50) and Randhir Singh (32). Singh was the beneficiary of the rescued minor girl.
Sanjay Kumar Jain, deputy commissioner of police (northeast) said the racket was busted following an investigation into the kidnapping of the rescued minor girl.
"The girl's father had suspicion that his daughter was lured by someone. We got a clue about the whereabouts of the victim through a phone call and she was rescued from a village in Kurukshetra," said Jain.
According to Jain, the gang mainly lured vulnerable girls belonging to lower strata either by giving them false assurance of jobs or by threatening them or their family members.
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Delhi girl rescued; one man, two women arrested for trafficking
New Delhi: Three people, including two women, were arrested for human trafficking and a girl from Delhi abducted by the gang and sold in Haryana was rescued, police said Tuesday.The accused, identified as Randhir Singh, Aashiya and Sanjeeda, were arrested from various parts of Haryana Monday.
While Randhir and Sanjeeda were arrested in Kurukshetra, Aashiya was arrested from Sonepat town.
"The girl, missing since July 1, was allured by Sanjeeda and taken to Kurukshetra after she lost her way in east Delhi. Sanjeeda handed over the victim to Aashiya who sold her to Randhir Singh, who is a divorced man," said a police official.
During interrogation, Sanjeeda disclosed that her husband Jaipal, who was murdered five months ago, used to supply girls in Haryana. After his murder, she took over the business.
She also confessed that her husband had sold more than a dozen girls so far.
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Wednesday, September 14, 2011
2 more women rescued
The two women from West Bengal were rescued from Hotel Museum Inn on Museum Road on Tuesday.
Police have also arrested Roshan Lal (40) from Haryana in connection with the crime. Two others, Nagesh and Pankaj, are absconding. The police have recovered two mobile phones and Rs 4,000 from Lal.
The girls were being lured from West Bengal on the promise of procuring jobs for them. Once they were brought to the city, they were forced into prostitution, police said.
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Police have also arrested Roshan Lal (40) from Haryana in connection with the crime. Two others, Nagesh and Pankaj, are absconding. The police have recovered two mobile phones and Rs 4,000 from Lal.
The girls were being lured from West Bengal on the promise of procuring jobs for them. Once they were brought to the city, they were forced into prostitution, police said.
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Bangladeshi girls forced into prostitution rescued
Upparpet police have busted a prostitution racket which allegedly trafficked girls from Bangladesh and forced them into prostitution in the city.
Acting on a complaint filed by one of the victims, police arrested five persons and rescued four girls — three Bangladeshis — on Monday.
The five accused have been identified as Mohammed Babu, 22, a native of Jessore district in Bangladesh, Rajesh, 33, a resident of Sanjaynagar, Mahesha, Ganesha, (both aged 24) and Umesh, 35, (all residents of Hassan district).
Babu, the main accused, brought girls from Bangladesh to Bangalore via West Bengal. He handed them over to Umesh, who used to send them to customers in the city.
Reshma approached Upparpet police on Monday night, complaining that she was forcibly brought to Bangalore 20 days ago. Babu had promised Reshma’s parents to arrange a job for the girl. She came to India without a valid passport.
Reshma, along with other girls, were locked inside a house at Vishveshwara Layout in Ullala. She managed to escape and reached the police station. Police have seized items worth Rs3 lakh. The rescued girls will be sent back to their native places.
Acting on a complaint filed by one of the victims, police arrested five persons and rescued four girls — three Bangladeshis — on Monday.
The five accused have been identified as Mohammed Babu, 22, a native of Jessore district in Bangladesh, Rajesh, 33, a resident of Sanjaynagar, Mahesha, Ganesha, (both aged 24) and Umesh, 35, (all residents of Hassan district).
Babu, the main accused, brought girls from Bangladesh to Bangalore via West Bengal. He handed them over to Umesh, who used to send them to customers in the city.
Reshma approached Upparpet police on Monday night, complaining that she was forcibly brought to Bangalore 20 days ago. Babu had promised Reshma’s parents to arrange a job for the girl. She came to India without a valid passport.
Reshma, along with other girls, were locked inside a house at Vishveshwara Layout in Ullala. She managed to escape and reached the police station. Police have seized items worth Rs3 lakh. The rescued girls will be sent back to their native places.
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