Eight people have been arrested in connection with the kidnapping and selling of a 12-year-old girl from Khajuri Khas in North-East Delhi who recently turned up and reunited with her mother and sister as an adult after ten years.
The arrested accused included a couple Ranju and her husband Shyam Sunder who had lifted the girl who was going to meet her sister, near lohe Ka Pul at Janta Colony on July 2, 2006, said police. They had taken her to Ambala where they sold her to another woman Babli for a sum of `12,000, DCP (North East) AK Singla said.
In next ten years, the girl was sold nine times to different people and was raped by many men and bore two children out of a weldlock with a man thrice her age and widowed after which she was thrown out of her husband’s home in Sangruru in Punjab, said the officer.
After the return of the girl as an adult on July 25 this year, and meeting her mother Anwari and sister Shanno, local police took the matter seriously and a SIT was formed to probe the case and arrest the accused, said the officer.
During the course of investigation the victim was also medically examined and counseled by NGO representatives. Her statement was recorded before a magistrate under Section 164 of CrPC.
The SIT conducted raids in various districts of Punjab and Haryana, including Mansa, Bhatida, Patiala, Sangrur, Ambala and Kurukshetra, and busted a notorious gang of human trafficking, he added.
The arrested include Aruna, alias Babli who was kingpin of gang from Kurukshetra, tout Sarup Chand (Patiala), Partap Singh from Sangrur who bought and sold the girl, Jagshir Singh (Sangrur) who married the minor girl and then sold her, Makhhan Singh (Sangrur) who mediated in marriage of the girl with a truck driver thrice her age with who she bore two sons, and Birender Singh (Mansa) nephew of truck driver who raped her.
Staff Reporter n New Delhi
Eight people have been arrested in connection with the kidnapping and selling of a 12-year-old girl from Khajuri Khas in North-East Delhi who recently turned up and reunited with her mother and sister as an adult after ten years.
The arrested accused included a couple Ranju and her husband Shyam Sunder who had lifted the girl who was going to meet her sister, near lohe Ka Pul at Janta Colony on July 2, 2006, said police. They had taken her to Ambala where they sold her to another woman Babli for a sum of `12,000, DCP (North East) AK Singla said.
In next ten years, the girl was sold nine times to different people and was raped by many men and bore two children out of a weldlock with a man thrice her age and widowed after which she was thrown out of her husband’s home in Sangruru in Punjab, said the officer.
After the return of the girl as an adult on July 25 this year, and meeting her mother Anwari and sister Shanno, local police took the matter seriously and a SIT was formed to probe the case and arrest the accused, said the officer.
During the course of investigation the victim was also medically examined and counseled by NGO representatives. Her statement was recorded before a magistrate under Section 164 of CrPC.
The SIT conducted raids in various districts of Punjab and Haryana, including Mansa, Bhatida, Patiala, Sangrur, Ambala and Kurukshetra, and busted a notorious gang of human trafficking, he added.
The arrested include Aruna, alias Babli who was kingpin of gang from Kurukshetra, tout Sarup Chand (Patiala), Partap Singh from Sangrur who bought and sold the girl, Jagshir Singh (Sangrur) who married the minor girl and then sold her, Makhhan Singh (Sangrur) who mediated in marriage of the girl with a truck driver thrice her age with who she bore two sons, and Birender Singh (Mansa) nephew of truck driver who raped her.