Trafficked Chatra girl rescued from Covid care centre in Delhi

Chatra: A 20-year-old woman from Kalyanpur village under Piparwar police station of Chatra district, who was trafficked to New Delhi three years ago, has reunited with her parents, courtesy the Covid-19 pandemic.
Lured by a trafficker named Fulchand, the woman, then a teenager, was living as a domestic help at a house in Janakpuri. Late last month, the woman contracted Covid-19. Her employers took her to a Covid-19 isolation centre in Sultanpuri area. There, she narrated her ordeal to a few inmates who were also from Jharkhand and expressed her desire to return to her parents in Kalyanpur.
Courtesy the co-residents of the isolation centre, the woman’s story was soon out on social media and doing the rounds on WhatsApp. Shoba Kujur, a social worker and a former member of Chatra Zila Parishad, came across the woman’s story and got in touch with Chatra police.
Piparwar police ran a background check of the girl and her whereabouts and found her identity to be genuine. Thereafter, the police station relayed the information to Chatra SP Rishav Kumar Jha. Assistant sub-inspectors Kamlesh Kumar Tirkey and Jacinta Minz were tasked with rescuing the woman from the national capital. The cops returned to Chatra with the trafficking survivor on May 1. She was taken to her native Kalyanpur village on May 5, where she reunited with her family.
“I am thankful to Shobha di and police officials. I had appeared in my matriculation examination and waiting for the result in 2018, when I was lured by one man named Fulchand and taken to Delhi. I wanted to take up further studies but all my dreams have been shattered,” the rescued woman said.
Nitesh Dubey, the officer-in-charge of Piparwar police station, said: “An FIR has been lodged against Fulchand and efforts are underway to track and arrest him.”
The woman said that Fulchand first seized her mobile phone and after reaching New Delhi, he sold her to a man in Janakpuri and fled. The woman was forced to work from dawn till late in the night, but was not allowed to step out of the home or peep out the window.