Delhi man mistakenly tries to sell a 17-year-old girl to SHO

Mistaken identity proved lucky for a 17-year-old girl who was on the verge of being sold off to a brothel owner. Mistaking the SHO of Kamla Market for the owner of one of the brothels on GB Road, Gurgaon residents Amar and Ranjeet tried to sell the girl off to him.

Thanks to the smartness of the SHO, who immediately posed as the owner of the brothel and laid a trap, the accused were nabbed and the minor girl was rescued.

From the past one-and-a-half month, inspector Sunil Kumar, the SHO of Kamla Market, was receiving random calls on his official number, wherein the callers would assume him to be either a pimp or a brothel owner.

Speaking to Mail Today, Kumar said: "In early November, I received a call from Amar, who asked me about the availability of girls on GB Road. As I was already receiving such calls, I pretended to be associated with GB Road. I gave him a few offers. After I gained their faith, they told me they want to sell a girl."

The duo got SHO's official number from a video clip on the GB Road that is uploaded on YouTube. The clip stops at a place that shows the contact number of the SHO written on a wall. The two men thought that the number belongs to a brothel owner.

But in reality, the numbers of some of the cops were placed on the walls by the SHO himself so that the victims could contact them when in need.

"I immediately told them that there is a need of minor girls in the brothel. The whole conversation that includes calls and chats over WhatsApp lasted for around 25 days. Finally, the deal was made and a trap was set up to rescue the girl and to arrest the traffickers," Kumar added.

On the scheduled date and time, a meeting was held between the decoy customers and Amar outside New Delhi Railway Station. Amar demanded Rs 3.5 lakh for the girl and the deal was finalised for Rs 2.3 lakh.

On November 22, the accused promised to hand over the girl outside New Delhi Railway Station in the evening. At about 5:30 pm, Amar came there and the decoy customer gave him Rs 20,000 as advance payment.

He returned after a few minutes later along with Ranjeet and the girl again. The police team then apprehended both of them and the minor girl was also rescued safely.

During interrogation, the men, in their early twenties, confessed that Amar lured the girl on the pretext of marriage. She ran away from her home in Bihar and came to Gurugram, and the two allegedly got married in front of four persons in a locked room in October.

But later, Amar who is already married started looking for a client to sell her off. It has been learned that the men are first-timers and had trapped the girl in a bid to earn easy money. They don't have previous crime record.