This story is from February 4, 2019

Cops suspect Maya Sathwara’s role in abduction of 50 girls

Maya Sathwara, 30, the alleged kingpin of the gang, is a married but separated woman. While working as a beauty parlour employee in Ghodasar,
Cops suspect Maya Sathwara’s role in abduction of 50 girls
AHMEDABAD: Maya Sathwara, 30, the alleged kingpin of the gang, is a married but separated woman. While working as a beauty parlour employee in Ghodasar, she came into contact with a Solapur-based bootlegger Prakash Marathi and a woman named Masi. She had also worked at a diamond polishing unit in Narol. Sathwara was once arrested by Vatva police in a case of bootlegging.
Both Sathwara and Marathi were arrested from Kathwada by Ahmedabad police on Sunday for running an inter-state human trafficking racket.
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In 2016, Maya, a class X dropout, started targeting girls between the age group of 14 and 18 years. “She used to get them kidnapped with the help of her two auto driver accomplices and hand them over to Marathi who would sell them in different areas of the country, said DCP Saurabh Tolambiya.
Tolambiya said that the girl who was saved from the clutches of human traffickers is suspected to be one of the 50-odd girls the gang has sold. “We suspect role of Maya’s gang in the abduction of a 14-year-old girl in 2014 and 13-year-old Vishwa of Vejalpur, who was abducted in 2013,” he said.
The parents of the 14-year-old girl, who went missing while coming home from her tuition class in Kagdapith area, had approached the Gujarat high court. “On directives of the high court, the case was handed over to the CBI, which has been directed to submit a progress report every three months. We are hopeful of tracing the 14-year-old girl too,” said a senior police official.
According to police, recovery of the 18-year-old girl led to the arrest of Maya from Kathwada. The girl was sold off twice in Dakor and in Botad and was later married off to one Pradeep Jasoliya for Rs 2 lakh in Bhavnagar. Maya had identified her as her younger sister. “The girl got good in-laws and a good husband. Jasoliya found that the girl was suffering from dementia and could not remember her original parents’ house. He once took her to Ahmedabad where somehow she identified her school. Jasoliya went to the school, found her photo in the school record and got her address. Jasoliya then took her to her parents and narrated the horror which the girl had gone through,” added Tolambiya.
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