Racket in human trafficking busted in Siliguri, Kalimpong girl rescued

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EOI, Siliguri, 30 Oct 2014: The Siliguri police on Thursday busted a human trafficking racket the modus operandi of which was to lure young girls into relationships through a social networking site and making false promises of marriage before selling them for paltry amounts. 
Police have rescued a girl from Kalimpong who was called to Siliguri and kept in a rented house near Bhaktinagar are near Iskon Temple for trafficking to Kanpur. The girl was found unconscious in the room.

Bhaktinagar Police informed a youth from Kanpur was allegedly involved in the case. Police said he had prepared fake profile in giving his identity as a renowned doctor. He was staying in rented flat in the Bhakti Nagar area of Siliguri.

Police have said there are allegations against the man for luring girls through social networking sites from Sikkim, Dooars and Darjeeling and selling them in various brothels of the country.

The rescued girl had been given some tablets to the girl so that she got unconscious and did not understand his plans of trafficking.

A team of the Darjeeling police had recently recovered three girls, all around 17, missing from Kalimpong villages in the Darjeeling hills from the Model House locality of Jalandar.

Raju Nepali, a representative of Darjeeling-based non-government organisation (NGO) Dooars Express, said that the girls from Darjeeling were being smuggled into Punjab, Uttar Pradesh Delhi and Haryana and their organization was trying hard to stop the crime.

Additional report:
Input and Photo from Face Book of DE Duars: 
A village girl of Kalimpong was saved from the clutches of a person in Siliguri who pretended to be a doctor and had plans to sell her off. Rakesh Kr. Mahaeshwari from Kanpur residing near Iskon Mandir Road had befriended Shetal (not her real name) hailing from Kalimpong. 
The fraud doctor somehow managed to convince Shetal that he loves her very much and wants to marry her. Shetal on seeing a bright future with the so called doctor agreed to his proposal. On 8th October Shetal came to Siliguri on the request of the fraud doctor Rakesh and started staying with him in his rented flat at Iskon Mandir road. 
He had promised her that they will soon get married. Shetal was introduced to the houseowner as his wife. Soon as the days passed by Rakesh started torturing her. 
He confined her in a room, beat her up and gave her several injections which made her sleep and sometimes intoxicated. 
Later Shetal also came to know that Rakesh is already twice married and has his family in Kanpur. Now Shetal just wanted to escape from there. 
Somehow she managed to contact a neighbor and gave him her parents mobile number and told him to inform them about her. The neighbor too knew she was in trouble as he could always hear the sound of the beatings and her cries. Neighbor informed her parents and immediately they with the help of Raju Nepali from the NGO Dooars Express rescued the girl at 4 pm today. 
Shetal's 2 brothers came from Kalimpong to Siliguri along with Raju Nepali and went to Bhaktinagar Police Station. The neighbours too were called there. Police raided the house at 4 pm and caught the Rakesh.