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Woman held for pushing minor daughter into flesh trade

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Press Trust of India Thane
Last Updated : Aug 13 2017 | 10:42 AM IST
The police have arrested a 30-year-old woman for allegedly pushing her teenaged daughter into flesh trade.
Based on a tip-off, the sleuths of the district rural police's anti-human trafficking cell raided a residential locality at Kashimira in Mira Road area here on Thursday and rescued the 14-year-old girl, a police official said today.
The police sent a decoy customer who contacted the girl's mother in Kashimira. A police team, which was already waiting at the spot, then nabbed the woman and rescued the girl, he said.
The woman was booked under IPC section 366-A (procuration of minor girl) and relevant provisions of The Immoral Traffic (Prevention) Act, he said.
The girl was sent to a rehabilitation home in Bhiwandi township of Thane.

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First Published: Aug 13 2017 | 10:42 AM IST

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