DIMAPUR, JUNE 28 (MExN): A fourteen year-old minor abducted from Dimapur was rescued from a brothel in Mumbai on June 22. The girl, a non-Naga, went missing on December 2012 but a police complaint was lodged only on June 14 by the girl’s father.
The minor was rescued and brought home by a team of Dimapur police led by OC Women Cell, Tingbem Thomsong, UBSI Ramokla, and constable Achila and assisted by UBSI Joseph Zeliang of East Police Station.
SDPO, Dimapur, Relo T. Aye, briefing the media, said that the father had tried searching for his missing daughter on his own but was not successful until he received credible inputs from a source in Dimapur.
The source turned out to be a woman (name withheld), who was also a victim of human trafficking but had managed to escape and return home. The woman, also a non-Naga, had landed up in a brothel in Pune in June 2012 after she was lured by one man identified only as Farokh on the promise of marriage. Months later, in April of 2013, she managed to escape from the brothel in Pune, where she was sold, and found her way home.
While in the brothel, the woman got in touch with a young girl from Dimapur, who turned out to be the missing fourteen year-old. After the woman reached Dimapur, she was able to locate the girl’s father, who finally lodged a missing complaint based on the information provided by the woman.
Immediately after the complaint was received, a police team was constituted to locate the missing minor. The team headed for Pune on June 22 where they spent the first two days scouring Pune’s Budhwar Peth red light district, where the missing minor was initially believed to be located. The minor was eventually traced to a brothel in Mumbai and rescued. It is suspected that the minor was lured by the same man identified as Farokh. The police are now on the lookout for the man whose real identity remains sketchy.
