Duped girls rescued from train
OUR CORRESPONDENT TELEGRAPH INDIA Kokrajhar Aug. 13: Orphan
Sandhya Dass luck was Sunitas misfortune.
Sandhya, 15, and Priya, a 20-year-old married woman (not their real names),
boarded a train for Mumbai on August 7 with Sunita, who had promised to find
them jobs there. However, the two were unaware that Sunita was a trafficker who
lured girls from northeastern states and sold them to brothels.
Sunitas luck ran out when a member of Initiative for Development Education
and Alternatives (IDEA), a Bongaigaon-based NGO, spotted her with two anxious
girls at Guwahati railway station and became suspicious of her motives.
The activist boarded the same compartment of Dadar Express and called her
colleagues to ask them to wait at Kokrajhar railway station. Members of the
Nedan Foundation and the All Bodo Students Union helped arrest Sunita, who
confessed that she was going to sell Priya and Sandhya to a brothel at Meera
Road, off Thane in Mumbai.
Three girls from Udalguri were rescued from traffickers under similar
circumstances in October last year.
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