The city police conduced a raid in the dingy bylanes of Budhwarpeth, the infamous red light area of city, and rescued five minor girls who were forced into prostitution.
The city police conduced a raid in the dingy bylanes of Budhwarpeth, the infamous red light area of city, and rescued five minor girls who were forced into prostitution.
The raid took place following a tip off received by Freedom Firm, an NGO working in several states across the country, from Rights Jessore, a Bangladeshi NGO.
Volunteers of Rights Jessore had informed that two minor girls are being take to India for flesh trade.
When the city commissioner of police Dr Satyapal Singh and joint commissioner Rajendra Sonawane were informed about the trafficking, they instructed the Farazkahana police to rescue the girls, to which MiD DAY was a witness.
u00a0 Following the orders from the commissioner, the senior police inspector of Farazkahana police station Bharatbhushan Sharma raided the 993 Budhwarpeth building at around 6 pm. The cops then rescued the five girls, but during the operation, the brothel keeper Mumtaz managed to escape.
However, MiD DAY managed to click her picture moments before she fled from the scene. According to sources, Mumtaz might have fled to her Mallali, her native village in the Bagalkot district of Karnataka.
Nonetheless, the cops managed to arrest a Bangladeshi trafficker named Fardia Shaikh, who used to bring these girls from Bangladesh through theu00a0 Indo-Bangla border, by bribing the Bangladesh Security Forces personnel.
The rescued will be sent to Mundhwa observation and special juvenile home for rehabilitation.
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