Incident Reports

Hotel owner arrested on charge of human trafficking

2020-09-19

Lumbini, Dang, Ghorahi, Ward 14

Police have arrested 40-year-old Himlal Sharki, an owner of Prabhat Hotel, Ghorahi Sub Metropolitan-14, Dang, on a charge of engaging 4 children in illegal sex work.  Sharki was arrested  on September 23, in accusation of using four child’s aged 15, 16 and 14 on illegal sexual work.

According to DSP Sumit Khadka of the District Police Office, four child’s were rescued by the police on September 19.  According to him, the accused is being investigated by registering a case of human trafficking.Health checkup of the rescued children was conducted at Rapti Institute of Health Sciences, Dang. The rescued children were handed to their parents on September 20.


Details and Impacts
Violent / Non-violent Violent
Onesided / Twosided Onesided
Collective / Interpersonal Interpersonal
Primary Form Sexual Assault
Weapons None
Primary Cause Rape/sexual assault
Secondary Cause Related to organized crime and illegal trade (drugs, arms, non-gendered human trafficking, protection racket, gang violence, etc.)
Actor 1 - Number of people 1
Actor 1 - Affiliations Citizen/Individuals
Actor 1 - Youth noyouth
Actor 2 - Number of people 4
Actor 2 - Affiliation (Target) Citizen/Individuals
Actor 2 - Youth youth
Total Raped 4
Female Raped 4
Youth Raped 4
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