Two minor girls rescued from traffickers

PRASHANT ACHARYA, EOI, Siliguri, 2 Feb 2016: Two minor girls from closed Panighatta Tea Garden were rescued from allegedly being trafficked to Dubai with the efforts of   NGO Kanchanjunga Uddhar Kendra (KUK), Siliguri and Railway Protection Force (RPF) Patna.

According to the information one local agent Guria Darjee from Jabra More, Naxalbari has been arrested who had contacted the victims first for providing jobs.

The victims are now in Patna and kept in a government shelter home. Patna police is trying to trace the other agents involved in the case.

Two minor girls were lured with providing lucrative jobs were travelling with an agent from Nepal in a train from NJP on 31st January. Family members informed KUK when their children didn't return home till evening.

Rangu Souriya, general secretary of KUK told that the victim's family contacted her for help. After filing the missing dairy at Panighatta she tried to contact the victim's number. After repeated call she convinced them to inform about their whereabouts. The girls informed that they were travelling in a train with a lady from Nepal and also informed the name of a local agent.

Later police traced the number and then with the help of RPF Patna they were rescued the minor girls but unfortunately the agent somehow managed to flee from the train.

According to the information there were other three girls missing from eastern Nepal and these agents had taken them in another train. Plans were to make all five girls fly on the same date to Dubai from New Delhi.

Souriya who recently received award from President of India among 100 powerful women of India is doing tremendous work to save the lives of hundreds of girls trafficked from various parts of India including Nepal.

Till now more than 700 girls has been rescued from brothels and from the hands of pimps since 2004.

Souriya informed that till date 14 traffickers has been arrested and four were convicted. Vicky Biswa from Kalchini has been convicted life term similarly BinayTamang of Darjeeling with 14 years, Sangita Darjee of Naxalbari with 10 years and Jamuna Thapa a brothel manager from Pune and resident of Nepal with 7 years imprisonment. 

KalimNews: According to sources from Bal Sakha the Childline NGO stationed at Patna Station, these two minor girls aged around 14 said that they have no parents and were helpless to find shelter for their livinghood. Taking advantage of that they were lured by Guria Darjee promising them domestic help job in Delhi. Some relatives informed KUK and RPF was contacted. RPF with volunteers of Bal Sakha, detained the victims but the accompanying agent from Nepal managed to flee from Patna junction railway station.They will be returned back to Panighatta after completinbg legal procedures.