Nine Odisha girls, including six minors, were rescued from the Solapur railway station in Maharashtra and handed over to the Gajapati District Welfare Committee (CWC) recently. The girls rescued by the Maharashtra Child Welfare Committee had been trafficked by two dalals, including a woman, from Gajapati through the Konark Express on July 10. The Railway Government Police could know about it and stopped them at the Solapur railway station. However, the gents dalal managed to give a slip to the GRP.
Knowing that the dalals had taken the girls to engage them as labourers, the GRP arrested the woman and handed over them to the Maharashtra CWC.District Child Welfare Officer Arun Kumar Tripathy said one of the rescued minor girls has passed Matriculation and she would be given vocational training soon.The other minor girls would be handed over to their parents soon, said CWC Chairman Binod Chandra Jena.