This story is from June 23, 2017

Girl jumps off first floor to escape from traffickers

Girl jumps off first floor to escape from traffickers
NEW DELHI: A 16-year-old girl, who was trafficked to Delhi from West Bengal and forced into prostitution, managed to escape from the custody of her tormentors on Wednesday. She jumped off the first floor of a house in outer Delhi’s Rohini where she was locked up for days.
She had suffered injuries due to the fall but convinced a passerby to help her call her parents in South 24 Parganas in West Bengal.
Later, a joint team of NGO Shakti Vahini and Delhi Police rescued the girl.
In her statement, the girl told the cops that she was abducted by a group of men from outside her school and taken to Mumbai. She was given a job at a dance bar before being forced into flesh trade. One day, she managed to call her parents from a customer’s phone and informed them about her location. However, the traffickers got wind of it and she was shifted her to a house in Rohini.
“The cops in West Bengal traced her to the house in Rohini with the help of technical surveillance and sought our help in rescuing her,” said Rishi Kanth from Shakti Vahini.
However, the traffickers managed to evade the cops. Initially, the rescue team looked for the girl in Rohini, G B Road and a few other places but failed to trace her until she again called her parents on Wednesday night.
“We got a lead when she again called her father and informed him that she was in Madanpur Khadar in southeast Delhi,” added Kanth.
Accordingly, her father had informed a senior police officer in her home town, who in turn, forwarded the details to Delhi Police through the NGO. In the meantime, the passerby had informed police and she was taken to a hospital as she sustained injuries while escaping from the clutches of the traffickers.

She was brought to Delhi by a man with a promise of marriage. Then, she was sold to someone else. She was kept in a flat in Jaiptur before being moved to the Rohini house.
The girl told the cops that the man took away her nose and ear-rings, made of gold, and sold them to bear the cost of the flat. He also threatened to kill her if she raised an alarm while she was in his custody.
NGO officials said that they established contact with her parents and that she would soon be reunited with her family. Police are trying to track down the traffickers.
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