This story is from February 24, 2017

15-year-old Bengal girl trafficked, raped in Gurgaon

A 15-year-old girl, residing in Jagannathpur in Murshidabad was rescued from a trafficking gang after being repeatedly raped in Gurgaon for the past one month.
15-year-old Bengal girl trafficked, raped in Gurgaon
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KOLKATA: A 15-year-old girl, residing in Jagannathpur in Murshidabad was rescued from a trafficking gang after being repeatedly raped in Gurgaon for the past one month.
The girl was rescued through the active intervention of a maid hailing from Bengal and her present employer, who had paid Rs 40,000 to her traffickers as advance money mistaking it to be a placement agency.
The local child protection agencies believe her own father is part of the trafficking gang.
Worse, even the Gurgaon police tried to force her “family” to arrive at a settlement with the traffickers after she was rescued before the local Child Welfare Committee led by Shakuntala Dhull intervened. The girl is likely to travel back to Murshidabad along with the local police soon.
CWC Gurgaon officials said that the girl was lured to Delhi on the pretext of getting a job as a caregiver by one Saima Bibi whose husband Abu Hasan Sufian Sk has already been identified as a notorious trafficker active on the Indo-Bangladesh border. Once in the outskirts of Gurgaon in Haryana, barely 40 km from Delhi, the traffickers confined to a room with Abu repeatedly raping her over a span of several days. The Gurgaon CWC believes she might have been also raped by “other customers.” Police said that once the girl fell ill, her traffickers sold her off camouflaging as a placement agency.
Once she joined as a maid in a Gurgaon household, she narrated her ordeal to the housemaid there who too hails from Bengal. “She was accompanied to the local police by the employer but the police promptly refused to lodge a case. They instead asked the employer to either arrive at a settlement with Abu Hasan and Saima or put the girl in a Murshidabad bound train. The employer opted out of both options and contacted NGO Shakti Vahini who then called up the local CWC,” said Shakuntala.
CWC officials said that they are not going to hand over the girl to her husband. “We have come to know that her father has travelled to Gurgaon to meet her tormentors. Under such circumstances, we will contact Murshidabad CWC and hand her over to Bengal police. We hope the police in Murshidabad will prove the role of Abu Hasan more deeply in the border area,” said Rishi Kant from Shakti Vahini.
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