Incident Reports

Embassy in Delhi verifying identities of rescued girls

2015-07-26

Bagmati, Kathmandu, Kathmandu, Ward 10

The Embassy of Nepal in New Delhi has intensified verification of the identities of the 21 Nepali girls that were rescued from South West Delhi by local police while they were being trafficked to Abu Dhabi via air route. Under Secretary Tirtha Wagle, Deputy Chief of the Mission in New Delhi said "Officials from embassy visited the site from where the girls were rescued last week by New Delhi Police." The New Delhi Police had busted the trafficking racket following a tip-off from its sources. It arrested two people for their alleged involvement in the racket from the Indira Gandhi International airport in New Delhi and rescued 21 Nepali girls from a location South West of Delhi. Police had raided several places in Mahipalpur from where these girls were rescued while recovering fake immigration documents. Preliminary investigations show that the girls were being trafficked to Abu Dhabi on the pretext of providing lucrative jobs. Deputy Chief of the mission Wagle said the two Nepali agents were identified to be Bishnu Tamang- 25, and Daya Ram Neupane- 33 and brought the girls from different parts of Nepal mainly from the Central Region. According to him, the women aged between 20-35 years looked very innocent and did not know about the fact that they were being trafficked to Dubai. "On the basis of the reports, we are also trying to find other Nepali girls that were allegedly brought from Nepal and kept hidden in the Mahipalpur area," Wagle said. Once the verification completes, we will hand over the girls to either parents or to the respective authorities in Nepal, he added. Many girls and children have been rescued and few traffickers arrested in the recent weeks after the devastating quake hit the country. The disaster has become an opportunity for the traffickers to smuggle the girls, children abroad misusing the porous border between Nepal and India.

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