Kidnapped teenage girl rescued from prostitution ring, 6 held

A 14-year-old girl, who was kidnapped from east Delhi last year and forced into prostitution, was rescued from Hisar in Haryana and six persons were arrested in the matter, police said today.

The girl had gone to school on August 27 last year but did not return. An FIR was registered in this connection at New Ashok Nagar police station on the complaint of her father.

Recently, the victim managed to contact her family members over phone who then approached police, they said.

The girl was rescued on February 28 from Hisar in Haryana after getting the information that she was there. Six persons including two women were separately arrested last week in connection with the case, DCP (East) Omvir Singh said.
 

She was provided counselling and her statement was recorded before a magistrate, he said.

The girl was trafficked and sexually assaulted repeatedly in the last seven months. She was finally forced into prostitution, Singh said.

The victim in her statement said she was kidnapped allegedly by Jyoti and her husband Pradeep. She was held captive at an unknown location in Noida in Uttar Pradesh and then they moved her to Kanpur.

Jyoti and Pradeep later sold her to one Krishan in Hisar who allegedly assaulted and raped her many times. She was then sold to one Satvir.

Satvir through Mukesh Thakur forced her into prostitution in Hisar. The duo also sexually assaulted her many times, the officer said.

A probe into the case revealed that Kavita and Mamta would call customers at their residences in Hisar and force the girl to make sexual relationship with them, he added.

"The six accused including Satvir Singh, Mukesh Thakur, Krishan Kumar, Kavita and Jyoti and Mamta have been arrested on charges including kidnapping, human trafficking and those of POCSO Act," the officer said.

Other accused in the case including Pradeep is absconding, he said.

Charges of abducting woman, human trafficking, selling minor for prostitution, gangrape, wrongful confinement and other relevant provisions of POCSO Act were added in the FIR registered in the matter last year, the DCP said.