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12-yr-old, four other girls rescued

2013-09-16

org SMS ALERT:Kathmandu, bandhak banai deeh vyaparma. KATHMANDU, SEP 16 - Police on Friday rescued a 12-year-old girl, who had been forced into prostitution, from Shantinagar in Kathmandu. The Indian girl hailing from Motihari in Bihar state had been brought to Kathmandu around six months ago by one Amirka Mahato of Duhabi, Rautahat, and sold to a shop owned by one Rita Yadav of Kalaiya, Bara, at Gajritinagar-34 at Shantinagar, police said. Acting on a tip off, a special squad sent from the Metropolitan Police Range (MPR), Hanumandhoka, arrested Mahato and Yadav along with four other sex workers and one of their clients. Chief of the Kathmandu MPR SSP Subodh Ghimire said Mahato had lured the girls to Nepal with promises of good jobs. “The girl was also subject to frequent beatings and ill treatment,” Ghimire said. On Sunday, police produced the two arrested persons in the Kathmandu District Court. The court remanded them in judicial custody for seven days on charges of human trafficking. They will be booked under the Human Trafficking and Transportation Control Act 2007, which sets a jail term of 10-20 years along with fine for anyone convicted of human trafficking. While the 12-year-old girl has been handed over to Rakshya Nepal, an NGO, the other girls and the client are being interrogated and will be booked accordingly, Ghimire said. One of the other girls, aged 20, also hails from Motihari, indicating that there are other Indian girls who are engaged in the flesh trade in the country, police said. “It is generally believed that girls from Nepal are sold in India and other parts of the world for prostitution,” said Inspector Krishna Chand of the MPR, who led the special squad on Friday. “However, this case has shown that poor girls from India are also brought to Nepal for forced prostitution.” काठमाड

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