Ranchi: A 15 year old girl from Sisai block of Gumla was rescued from the clutches of a placement agent by Nagri police, Jharkhand State Commission for Protection of Child Rights (JSCPCR) and social organization Shakti Vahini on Friday.
The girl was raped and brutally beaten up by the placement agent Ranjit following which she suffered major physical injuries and stomach ache and was immediately admitted to Sadar Hospital after being rescued.
Chairperson of JSCPCR, Arti Kujur said, “The doctors at the hospital have confirmed reparative rape. The girl informed us that she was raped by the agent in Delhi day before yesterday and brought to Ranchi yesterday.”
Members of Shakti Vahini received information of the girl being held captive in a house in Nagri following which they contacted JSCPCR and the rescue drive was conducted.
Officer in charge of Nagri Police Station Ram Narayan Singh said, “We have detained the accused and he has confessed to raping and trafficking the girl. FIR is being lodged.”
The girl was trafficked to Delhi by the accused in January this year where she used to take care of the wife of her employer who had met with the accident. “She said that she was scolded by the employer often and wished to come back home so she called up her uncle and the placement agent went to bring her back,” Kujur said.
However, after taking her out of the employer’s place, the agent, instead of getting her back to Ranchi, kept her in a room in Delhi and raped her. “The girl said that when she protested she as beaten up by the accused. The next day he brought her to Ranchi and instead of taking her to her home, he kept her captive in his own house in Nagri,” JSCPCR chairperson said.
She added, “Once the girl calms down, we will counsel her and based on her statement action will be taken against other people involved in her trafficking including her family members.”
Rishi Kant of Shakti Vahini said that he would be writing a letter to Delhi Commission for Women to probe in the matter at Delhi. “The girl has said that she was not paid a single rupee during her term of employment. This seems to be a case of bonded labour and organized crime and action should be taken against the employer as well as the agent,” he said.
Meanwhile, Anti Human Trafficking Unit of Simdega arrested one Ashok Yadav, a trafficker from Supaul district of Bihar who was accused of trafficking and selling two children from a village in Simdega to Delhi.
AHTU incharge RK Kujur said, “The trafficker took a 15 year old boy to Delhi five years ago and sold them to household for work. In the term of five years the boy did not get a single rupee for his work and the money was instead collected by the trafficker.”
She added, “The boy managed to come back to Simdega and the trafficker followed him back and started persuading him to go back to Delhi. It was then that the villagers informed us and we arrested the accused.”