‘Many Odia women trafficked to MP tortured’

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The Dalit woman, who had arrived at Puri on Tuesday after rescued from Madhya Pradesh (MP) by police, exposed plight of many Odia women in MP, besides her.

As per her statement, many poor women from Puri localities have been sold off by agents in MP and are presently living a life of captivity.

Through various glossy hopes of good job, many illiterate women have been sent but after arrival in MP, they have no chance to get away from a trap.

The mediators in Puri are frequently sending poor women and earning money from the purchasers.

While some young women have been pushed to marriage, the aged ones sent to farmland as bonded labourers, said Daudi, who is ill in her parental home due to torture by the MP man to whom she had been sold off.

She also narrated her ordeal how she was put on auction sale after her arrival in the village of MP.

Many people had come to evaluate her but returned as if she was a commodity, said the victim woman, adding that one Dausa Singh lastly agreed and settled it for Rs 55000.

She also explained how she was mercilessly beaten up in the house by Dasua when she opposed to her sale. Not only she was alone, many poor women of Puri have been sold off by the agents, who are presently suffering a bondage life there, Daudi stated.

In her trafficking case, which was nearly a month ago, the victim has pointed out one Santia, her husband Chota and his father Bhola of Nuagaon near Puri-Bhubaneswar NH to be involved.

They had taken her to MP promising a company job. Before them, her co-labourers Mina and Khati of Noliasahi brought her to Hatisala and through one Jati, she moved to Nuagaon before catching a train in the midnight from Puri station to Ashok Nagar of MP.

Worthy to inform that on October 14, one Aru Mallick of Bauribasta village of Brahmagiri had filed acomplaint with Puri

Sadar police station about trafficking of her daughter Daudi to MP.

As per the complaint, the Puri police with help of their MP counterparts had rescued the Dalit woman from Janta village there.

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