Four Odia girls and two Odia youths of Sundargarh, who had allegedly been trafficked to New Delhi to work there during February last, are reportedly missing there. A team of Sundargarh police will go to New Delhi to rescue the six missing persons.
Sources said in February, a woman agent of Bandega village in Sundargarh had lured some youths, including four girls, residents of Deuldih village under lepripada block, to provide them good placement and income of Rs10,000 per month in an Ashram in Bihar. Three youths including a girl of Deuldih village had reached at Sundargarh and had met the woman agent there. The agent had met another woman of Dengibadi and had telephoned one Nihal, who works as an agent at Delhi, to send money to her to send the trio. Accordingly, Nihal had sent money to the account of woman agent. Thereafter, the three youths went to New Delhi from Jharsuguda station by train.
When they asked why they were being sent to New Delhi as they had been told to work in Bihar, they were told that they would go to New Delhi as they would get higher salary than in Bihar. After reaching at New Delhi, agent Nihal with the assistance of another agent Suraj had engaged the trio as domestic help at different places. After some days, the woman agent of Bandega village trafficked another three girls and two boys to New Delhi.
According to sources, when the torture became unbearable, two youths, identified as Om Siba and Bikash, fled from there. After they reached Sundargarh, they narrated about their trauma.
But the whereabouts of another four trafficked girls and two youths could not be known. On June 13, when the family members of six victims met the woman agent, under pressure, she gave a written agreement that she would bring back the six trafficked, including four girls, within seven days. But even if about 25 days have passed, the six trafficked persons have not returned.
Finding no other alternative, the family members of the victims lodged an FIR in lepripada police station. According to sources, as per direction of Sundargarh Superintendent of Police Nikhil Kanodia , a police team of Sundargarh along with family members of the victims will go to New Delhi shortly to trace the missing persons.