In a shocking case reported from the Bermo in Bokaro district of Jharkhand, the administration ordered a probe into the alleged selling of a woman and her two minor sons by two women of Nawadih block three months ago in Uttar Pradesh after the incident came to light on Wednesday.
Locals said that the incident happened at Jawaharnagar area in Phusro in Bermo sub-division of the district.
According to reports two poverty stricken couple women identified as Sukari Devi and Bobby Devi belonging to Katghara village of Nawadih block and Jawaharnagar in Phusro respectively, sold a local woman identified as Seema Devi wife of Vikram Kumar Tanti alongwith her two minor sons for Rs 43,000 each to a brick kiln owner of Sandia in Uttar Pradesh.
An official of the Bermo police station, Laxamikant said, “Though it is a three-month-old case, the incident has come to our notice after the husband of the woman lodged a complaint with Bermo police station.”
The case was reported on Wednesday after the two women were arrested for selling Seema Devi and her two-month-old and 2- year- old sons in Sandia in Uttar Pradesh for Rs 43,000 each. On the basis of information shared by her husband Vikram Kumar Tanti, the police arrested the accused.
Police sources said that Tanti had left his house for Delhi for doing some job. His wife and two minor sons, who were living at Jawaharnagar in Phusro. After few months she came in contact with Sukari Devi and Bobby Devi.
She was later brought with her two sons to UP on the pretext of a job and was subsequently sold and sexually exploited for three months. While Vikram Kumar Tanti, who was had last contact with his wife on Dipawali could not contact with her.
He called his relatives to find his wife but failed to trace her. Lastly he returned Phusro and tried to search her. Finally his wife Seema Devi managed to call from clutches to her mother and sought help from acquaintances, police said.
The woman was kept captive in a room in Sandia in UP and was not allowed to meet or talk to anyone. Whenever she could manage to call the women over phone who had brought her to Sandia in Uttar Pradesh they would be given vague answers, police sources said.