B’desh girls forced into flesh trade in city
The GRP at Chhatrapati Shivaji Terminus (CST) is probing a case where three minor girls were kidnapped from their homes in Dhaka, Bangladesh and brought to the city after which they were forced into prostitution. One of the wanted accused, a Bangladeshi, brought them to the city on the pretext of employing them as domestic helps.
According to the CST GRP, on Thursday evening at around 6 pm, the three girls (aged 16, 16 and 17) were found wandering at the CST railway station. An official said, “The girls were looking very worried and scared.”
During investigation, the police found out that the girls are from Dhaka and their parents had sent them to Mumbai with one of the accused, identified as Anwar. He fooled their parents that he would get them a job where they would be paid `20,000 a month. He even took `10,000 from them as travelling charges.
Anwar illegally crossed the border along with the girls and entered the city by train. He sold them to one Amit, who took them to a pimp at a city hotel.
As the girls realised their predicament of being pushed into flesh trade, they resisted, but the pimp assaulted them with a leather belt. Four men then forcibly raped them in the hotel. The following day, Amit took them out to buy cosmetics. There, they hoodwinked Amit and managed to reach CST station by train, where incidentally they came in contact with the police and narrated their ordeal.
A case under sections of rape and kidnapping of Indian Penal Code, and under the relevant sections of Prevention of Immoral Trafficking Act and the Prevention of Children from Sexual Offences Act have been registered.
The police has informed one of the relatives of the girls, who are now currently living at a correction home.
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