Police arrest six miscreants in human trafficking case

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Police arrest six miscreants in human trafficking case

Wednesday, 29 January 2025 | Staff Reporter | BHOPAL

In the case of selling a 15-year-old minor from Bhopal for Rs 2 lakh, the police have arrested a total of 6 accused including a married couple.

The accused husband and wife have also been arrested in cases of immoral trafficking earlier.

Meanwhile, the girl has made shocking revelations during police interrogation.

On the night of the incident, an auto driver saw her alone and kept her with him in the name of help and raped her. Later, she was sold to a young man living in Ashok Nagar with the help of the couple.

DCP Zone-1 Priyanka Shukla said that the gang sold the 15-year-old minor in Ashok Nagar for marriage by telling her age as 25 years. She was kept hostage in Ashok Nagar by hiding her identity. The kingpin of the human trafficking gang is Ashutosh Vajpayee and his wife Mehak Yadav. A case of immoral trafficking is also registered against Ashutosh in 2019.

Investigation has revealed that the minor who ran away from home was found wandering in a deserted area by auto driver Salman. On the pretext of help, the accused took her to a hotel and did wrong things here. The auto driver had delivered the minor to the human traffickers.

After raping the girl, Salman handed her over to the accused Ashutosh and Mehak. Both of them sold the minor in Ashoknagar through Shobharam. All the accused are previously acquainted with each other. During the investigation, the names of all the accused came out one by one.

The police identified the accused and arrested all 6 accused. Two have been sent to jail. While four accused have been taken on 6-day police remand on Monday.

In a statement to the police, the minor said that after the death of her mother in 2022, she started living with her maternal uncle in his house. Where the maternal uncle used to do wrong things with her taking advantage of her loneliness. Fed up with this, she had decided to leave the house.

After leaving the house, she had no place to stay. The auto driver saw her wandering. Then the auto driver Salman assured her of help and took her to the human traffickers. The gang got her married to a man in Ashoknagar by telling her age as 25 years.

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