Eighteen girls (16 Nepali and two Bengali girls) were rescued from traffickers in Maidangarhi area of South Delhi on Tuesday by a joint raid by Varanasi Police Crime Branch and Vasant Vihar police. Three persons were arrested from the spot. Delhi Commission for Woman (DCW) Chairperson Swati Maliwal spoke to the rescued girls. The rescued girls were sent to shelter homes.
On 23 July 2018, Varanasi Police Crime Branch registered an FIR stating 18 women being trafficked into Delhi and sold to Gulf countries for prostitution. Varanasi police then came to Delhi and raided the house in Maidan Garhi where the girls were kept confined, DCW Spokesperson stated.
Maliwal said, “68 passports belonging to 61 Nepali and 7 Indian girls were recovered from the house. One of the girls who was able to flee, informed the Varanasi police after which an FIR was registered. They were able to arrest three individuals.”
DCW Chief and member Kiran Negi interacted with the girls aged between 18 to 30 years. They to speak initially but after counselling, they opened up and informed that they had been brought to Delhi for giving jobs. They informed that they are very poor and belong from the earthquake affected regions of Nepal, it said.
Maliwal is also contacting Nepal Embassy for repatriation of the girls. She has also requested them for ensuring their jobs in Nepal, DCW stated.
DCW Chief stated, “Delhi has become a hub of human trafficking. DCW finds out about these rackets, Police of other states finds them out but Delhi Police continues to sleep. Varanasi Police informed me that the house in Maidan garhi has been used for past few years for trafficking girls in batches. How can the local police not know about the sameij”, she asked.