NHRC sends notice to the Police Commissioner, Delhi and SP, Ajmer on trafficking of girls

New Delhi August 30, 2007 The National Human Rights Commission has sent notice to Police Commissioner Delhi and SP, Ajmer on a news report which said that girls kidnapped from Sultanpuri area of Delhi are being trafficked to Gulf.
Taking suo-motu cognizance of a news report which appeared in the Hindi daily, "Amar Ujala" on August 26, 2007, the Commission said that the incident raises a serious issue of human rights violation of girls.
According to the report, a 15 year old girl of Budh Vihar in Sultanpuri had gone missing in July this year. When her family members approached the police station with a complaint of abduction, the police did not register any case. Subsequently on the intervention of an NGO, the family of the victim got a case registered at the police station.
The report, further, said that the abducted girl somehow managed to escape from the abductors and returned to her family. On return, she disclosed that she had been taken away by a youth to Ajmer on a false promise for a job. She told her parents that she was kept in a small room and several other girls were also lodged in similar rooms in the area. The victim further disclosed that the girls had been forced into flesh trade and if anyone opposed, she would be injected with intoxicants. The victims also said that seven other girls from Sultanpuri area itself had been taken by the same youth for being trafficked to Gulf countries.
The Commission after going through the distressing news, directed that the same may be forwarded to the authorities for a factual report within four weeks.
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