“Karnataka: NCPCR team busts illegal orphanage run by Salma and Shameer in Bengaluru, was used to traffick young girls to Kuwait”, Opindia, March 4, 2024:
“In a shocking incident from Karnataka’s capital, Bengaluru, an illegal orphanage was discovered in Sampigehalli by Priyank Kanoongo, the chairman of the National Commission for Protection of Child Rights (NCPCR) and his team during an inspection on 15th March. He informed about the development on his official social media handle along with videos, adding that at least twenty young girls were present there.
They were kept in total isolation and were not even allowed to join school. The children’s home is devoid of windows or skylights and the girls are confined behind its four walls. Some of them who went to school before coming to the house have also stopped attending. During the conversation, they revealed that Salma, the woman in charge of the property and who took care of them, arranged their relationships in Kuwait.
Preliminary conversations suggested that this is where Gulf countries recruit females for human trafficking under the guise of marriage. Such cases have already been reported in South India….”
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