A 17 years old girl, who trafficked at the age of 8 years returned home after 9 years. In lieu of working as a child labourer for nine years, she has got only Rs 5000. The teenager had lost all hope of meeting his family. Trafficked to Haridwar at the age of 8, she was forced to live like a bonded labourer by her employer for around 9 years. After the arrest of her trafficker Dilip Kachhap and efforts of the Child Welfare Committee, Garhwa, her employer left her recently after giving Rs 5,000. She knew the name of his village and district only. Somehow she reached her home after asking people.
Geeta Kumari (name changed), now17 a resident of a village in Bhandariya police station was trafficked by co-villager Pradeep Kachhap with a promise that he would give her good education at a Mission School in Ranchi. But after being taken from the house, she was taken to Haridhar in Uttarakhand and was sold there as a domestic servant. She was not even allowed to go out of the house.When the girl's mother came to know about her that she was not studying but was working as a house maid at Haridwar, she kept her land as mortgage and Rs. 1300 gave to Pradeep Kachhap for bringing her daughter back, but Pradeep did not do so.
Mother of the victim filed a complaint. After the initiative of CWC chairman Upendranath Dubey, Garhwa, the trafficker Pradeep was arrested and sent to judicial custody and the employer freed the girl. During counseling at CWC, the victim could not even tell the name of the employer.
She said that in the house where she was sold, there were a total of six members and there were two small children in it, she has not got anything to study further. She said that she learned about her sale when the Sardar (the buyer) told her that she cannot leave from there until her money is repaid. She said that during these nine years, a person named Pradeep Kachhap came five times to the house and took money from his employer. She informed that two other girls from Jharkhand, Pooja and Tara were also taken with her. Both of them have also returned with her.