This story is from March 17, 2021

Kidnapped at 7, ‘sold’ at 10 for Rs22L, MP girl rescued after 4 yrs

Kidnapped at 7, ‘sold’ at 10 for Rs22L, MP girl rescued after 4 yrs
Nagpur: A 14-and-half year-old girl, rescued this week from a brothel in the city’s red light locality of Ganga Jamuna, was kidnapped at the age of seven and later ‘sold’ to the sex trade racketeers for Rs22 lakh. At the age of 10, she was made to entertain almost as many customers as her age and sometimes even more, against a payment of Rs50-60 per day at the brothel.

Police efforts have ensured she will be meeting her family soon, after a gap of seven years. Her mother was reportedly shocked to see her daughter looking “much older than her age”, which, it was later understood, was an effect of the relentless administering of hormonal injections and feeding of high-protein powders and tablets at brothels to develop girls’ bodies faster, for them to be ready for multiple-partner sex.
The racketeers also make the girls addicted to liquor and narcotics to ensure they are numbed to the pain.
The victim, along with her younger sister — aged five — and an 8-year-old neighbour, were kidnapped in May 2014 from Dewas, Madhya Pradesh (MP). It’s learnt that the sisters, along with their friend, had stepped out of home, following their mother outside after their parents had a tiff. An unidentified couple had abducted the three children on a bike, on the pretext of taking them to their mother.
Though an offence of kidnapping was registered, MP police had failed to trace the children. It was during an ‘operation Muskan’ drive, initiated to trace missing and kidnapped children, the police had learnt that a woman was rescued from remote Pander taluka in Bhilwada district of Rajasthan.
Through the efforts of the MP police team comprising sub-inspector Rahul Patidar, assistant sub-inspectors Radheshyam Verma and Dhirajsingh Bais, head constable Shivkumar and women cops Sulochana and Meena, it was found that the younger sister of the girl rescued in Nagpur and their neighbour were rescued by the Rajasthan police from the racketeers in 2019 during ‘Operation Gudiya’, launched to rescue girls trapped in nefarious activities.

The two girls were traced at a shelter home in Ajmer. After the rescue, the girls had recalled the names of their parents and state but could not reveal any more details, which had stalled their reunion with family.
During the interaction with the two rescued girls, the whereabouts of the girl in Nagpur’s Ganga Jamuna came to the fore. The MP police team learnt that the girl found in Nagpur was shifted out of Rajasthan around four years ago and taken to Mumbai. She was brought to Ganga Jamuna from Mumbai.
In the meantime, Lakadganj police received a tip-off about the Nagpur-based girl, following which a team of senior inspector Parag Pote and inspector Amita Jaipurkar, under zonal DCP Lohit Matani rescued her. The cops were surprised as she appeared to be looking starkly different from the picture of her young age shared by MP police. The girl had claimed to be “20-years-old” and a “mother of one”.
Pote said the photograph of the rescued girl was sent to MP police and they showed it to her sister, their friend and the girl’s mother, who immediately identified her.
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