Bihar police has arrested three human traffickers and freed five minor girls from their clutches. This arrest has been done in collaboration with Child Line, Mukti Foundation and Kailash Satyarthi Foundation in Turkaulia police station area of East Champaran district. Four of the rescued girls are from Assam while one is from West Bengal.
Two of the arrested traffickers are from Assam and one from West Bengal. They have been identified as Musa Shaikh and Pavitra Rabha of Assam, and Sushant Adhikari, of West Bengal.
The rescued girls told that these people lure them to Bihar in the name of getting them good jobs and work in orchestras. Then after making them work as a dancer in the orchestra, they were given only Rs 2000-2500. They also allege that in the off-season, these people forced them to do prostitution and beat them up if they refuse.
It is said that Kailash Satyarthi Foundation received information that some minor girls from West Bengal have been trafficked to Motihari. As soon as the information was received, along with Mukti Foundation and Child Line they started searching for those girls. They took help of Tulkaulia police to conduct a raid in Mahanawa village, where the five minor girls were recovered.
Bihar Police delayed filing FIR?
The chairperson of the National Commission for the Protection of Child Rights (NCPCR), Priyank Kanoongo, on Wednesday had accused the Turkaulia Police SHO Mithlesh Kumar of not registering an FIR in connection with the trafficking of the five minor girls, and said that the girls had been kept in the police station since 3 AM. He had sought the intervention of Bihar Chief Minister Nitish Kumar in the matter. He also mentioned that one trafficker Manan Ansari has gone missing.
“A girl told me on (the) phone that she has been brought here from Assam by Musa Sheikh. Musa is in Turkolia police station but station in-charge Mithlesh Kumar is neither writing FIR nor presenting the girls before (the) CWC. The girls are in (the) police station since 3 am last night. @NitishKumar please pay attention,” he tweeted.
HinduPost had earlier covered this racket of grooming girls using love jihad and other tactics, and then trafficking them into the flesh trade via the notorious dance orchestras of Bihar. Both Bihar and West Bengal are in urgent need of firm, Dharmic leadership to stem the lawlessness and criminality that has taken deep root there due to corrupt, secular rulers.