Child welfare panel flags u.p. trafficking gang
Jaipur, June 9 -- The Child Welfare Committee (CWC) of Bharatpur on Monday alleged that a human trafficking network running a prostitution racket is operating in Vrindavan, Uttar Pradesh, with as many as 50 girls currently in the gang's clutches.
CWC Chairman Rajaram Bhutoli made the claim citing the account of a 15-year-old girl who was recently rescued.
The case came to light on April 17 when a woman lodged a missing-person complaint at Kherli Mode police station, claiming her daughter had disappeared. Police detained a girl two days later and referred her to the Bharatpur CWC. However, upon questioning, the committee determined the woman was not the girl's biological mother.
According to the victim's statement, her mother had died and her father was an alcoholic, leaving her without parental care. On February 3 she ran away from home to Delhi, where a man offered her employment. He then sent her to an associate in Jammu and Kashmir, who surrendered her to local police. Together with another girl, the victim later ran from a child welfare centre in Jammu and Kashmir to Delhi, where she fell into the hands of yet another man. He took her to Vrindavan and raped her over three days. A woman named Chinta Devi subsequently moved her from Vrindavan to Kherli Mode in Bharatpur.
The plan unravelled when the girl fled, taking gold jewellery and cash.
On May 14, the CWC filed a complaint at Sewar police station against Chinta Devi and the alleged Vrindavan trafficking gang, Bhutoli said....
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