Abducted 14-year-old Bangladesh girl forced into sex trade, rescued

Surat: City police crime branch’s anti-human trafficking unit rescued a 14-year-old minor Bangladeshi girl from a spa and massage parlour in Althan area on Saturday and busted a well-oiled flourishing sex racket.
Kidnapped a year ago from her country, the minor was earlier sold off to various persons in multiple times including Kolkata, Bangalore and Mumbai before being sold in the city where she was forced into prostitution. Police arrested three persons and booked another three for their alleged involvement in the prostitution racket.
Cops are now attempting to trace the people who had sold her in the different cities.
Another 19-year-old girl of Punjab too was rescued from the same spa at Infinity Biz Hub on Althan Bhimrad Road, who too said she was allegedly brought to the city on promises of getting a job in an airline company.
Police arrested Ankit Mansukh Kathiriya, Vijay Nagji Padhra and Vishal Sanjay Vankhede for allegedly forcing these young girls into immoral activities and booked them for rape, sexual assault, exploitation, forcing minor into prostitution and others under relevant sections of Indian Penal Code.
Besides implicating the accused under Protection of Children from Sexual Offences (POCSO) Act offences, they were also booked under the Immoral Traffic Prevention Act.
Preliminary police investigation revealed that the girl went missing from her home in Khulna in Bangladesh on March 2, 2019 after she was lured by a friend Mohsin on promises of money and work.
Five months later, on July 19, the girl first called up her mother and revealed her ordeal. She informed her about being forced into prostitution and that she was in Bangalore.
The mother then lodged a complaint of kidnapping against Mohsin and his parents in Khan Jahan Ali police station in Bangladesh in July. Police could trace the girl’s location to Bangalore and Mumbai, but were unable to rescue her then.
“Based on a specific input from a central agency we traced the girl in the city. We rescued her and she will be united with her family after completing the procedure,” said Ajay Tomar, city police commissioner.
“The duo had entered India probably on forged identity papers. She was sexually assaulted for a few days in Kolkata then sold off to one Milan in Bangalore. After keeping her there for a few days she was sold to one Neetu in Mumbai,” said police, adding that she was further sold off to one Shabbir, who finally brought her to the city.
After being rescued the girl is kept in a children home and police have started a procedure to reunite her with her parents.