Kanchanpur/Mar 24, Bharat ma bechina laadai gareka 7 janaa yuwati lai Maiti Nepal ra prahari le udwaar garyo. Four women being trafficked to New Delhi, India from Kathmandu with support from Maiti Nepal. Police had stopped the girls from Sindhupalchowk and Morang from crossing the border into India after they said they were heading to Kyrgyzstan, a Central Asian nation, for “employment”. The women were accompanied by three of their male relatives who had come to drop them off in New Delhi before their departure to the Central Asian nation. “The girls and their relatives didn’t even know the person who was supposed to send them to Kyrgyzstan for employment,” said Superintendent of Police Bishow Niranjan Pradhan during a press meet organised in the district on Monday. Two among the four women said they were going to Himachal Pradesh, but they had booked bus tickets to Delhi. “This immediately raised our suspicions as to reach Himachal Pradesh, one need not go to Delhi,” said SP Pradhan. Upon being inquired by Maiti Nepal’s representatives at the border crossing, the four women had said that they were heading for Kyrgyzstan. “The girls said they were going to Kyrgyzstan, while the men said they were accompanying them till Delhi only,” said Maheshwori Bhatta, the Kanchanpur -based coordinator of Maiti Nepal. Bhatta also informed that two of the rescued girls were concealing their identities, which also raised their suspicion. The women had booked the tickets for the Kathmandu-New Delhi direct bus service from Om Sai Buddha Tours & Travel Service at Swayambhu in Kathmandu. “I had paid Rs 200,000 to one of my brothers back in the village after he assured to send me to Kyrgyzstan where I will get a job in which I would be earning Rs 30,000 per month,” said one of the girls from Morang. Neither did she knew the person who booked her bus ticket in Kathmandu nor the one who will be receiving her in New Delhi. She only knew the mobile number of the person who was supposed to meet her in New Delhi as it was written down on her ticket. But she didn’t know his name. “Our ticket was booked from Swayambhu, and we were informed that a person will be coming to pick us up in Delhi,” said another girl from Sindhupalchwok. But she also informed that she didn’t know who purchased the bus ticket for her in Kathmandu and who will be coming to receive her in New Delhi. Also, the rescued women were travelling in two groups. In the first group there were two women and one man, while in another two women and two men. According to SP Pradhan, after the government imposed a ban on Nepali women seeking employment opportunities abroad to protect them from being victims of physical and sexual exploitation, ,agents are looking alternative route through India to smuggle women out of Nepal. He said the start of direct bus service from Kathmandu to New Delhi has made it easier for human traffickers involved in trafficking women to foreign countries.