On 12th of August 2017, we received an information of a 10-year-old girl named Kiran (name changed), who was kidnapped by a family, that were in the business of preparing young girls for prostitution. The child was doing all the household work such as cleaning the house, dropping the children to school, buying vegetables etc. After verifying the verifying the information we planned and conduced the rescue operation. We rescued Kiran and arrested 4 people in the rescue operation. After speaking to Kiran, she said that her mother passed away and her dad married again. Her stepmother uses to harass her, so she stayed out of the house most of the time. Because of this, she was sent to her aunt’s place, her aunt was working, so she used to stay alone at home and roam on the streets.
One night when she was out on the streets, she met a woman, she became friends with her and took her out for a movie. During the movie the lady offered her juice, she does not recollect anything after drinking the juice, when her eyes opened, she was in some one’s house in Delhi. From Delhi, one man brought her to Mira Road.
Here they use to beat her a lot and they cut her hair. They would get angry on the girl if she spoke to anyone. She was living in tremendous fear. During the further interrogation of the trafficker, we came to know that Kiran was sold by a lady for 1,25,000 to a family whose business was to prepare young girls for prostitution. Also, we got another link of a 3-year-old girl who was sold by the same lady. We immediately send a team for the rescue. The child was rescued. In total, 11 accused were arrested in these two cases.
This was a syndicate of child trafficking which was burst by the TLF team. Priya (name changed) the 3-year-old girl was sold for 90,000. This ordinary looking case gave us many links through which the Police were able to unearth a big mafia of human traffickers which were operating in other North Indian states of Delhi, Punjab, Haridwar and Haryana. Kiran is repatriated to her family. Priya was trafficked from Haridwar, there is no missing complaint of her. The Police is unable to trace her parents. Presently Priya is in the shelter Home.