Police have arrested and court-forwarded four persons, including two women and a youth of Uttar Pradesh, on the charge of trafficking a minor girl of Rourkela to Uttar Pradesh on the promise of a job.
After the arrest, the miseries of the girl came to the fore on Friday. She was allegedly been forced to marry a youth at a place near Muradabad of UP and was forcibly kept under their captivity for months. She was rescued recently.
According to the 17-year-old girl, she had on April 5 April been to one of her friend’s house in the Kumbharpada basti area and spent the night there. During her stay, she had met one laxmi
Singhdeo (45) of the basti, who promised her to give her a suitable job in Delhi. The girl agreed to her proposal. On April 9, the girl, laxmi, her husband Manoj Singhdeo (50) and another woman, Santi Barua, boarded the Utkal Express from Rourkela to reach Delhi.
They reached a place near Muradabad the next day. From they went to one Sanjay Singh (20)’s house. While Manoj and laxmi returned, Shanti stayed there with the girl. later, the girl came to know that Sanjay was Shanti’s nephew. After three days, Shanti and Sanjay’s family members forced the girl to marry Sanjay.
As the victim was not interested, she wanted desperately to move out of Sanjay’s house. But Shanti later took her to Delhi and engaged her as domestic help.
The Uditnagar police rescued the girl while acting on a complaint recently filed by her family members.