16 years on, Dulari trafficked from Jharkhand reunited with family
SHE WAS BROUGHT TO DELHI BY AN ‘AGENT’ TO WORK AS DOMESTIC HELP, AND THEN TO CHANDIGARH WHERE A WOMAN, HEMA, TOOK HER SALARY FOR YEARS
KARNAL: More than 16 years after she was allegedly trafficked from Jharkhand’s Manoharpur block in West Singhbhum district, 26-year-old Dulari was reunited with her family at Karnal on Monday.
For the past seven months, Dulari has been working as domestic help at the local residence of Chander Prakash Kathuria, chairman of Haryana Sugarfed, who helped her to meet her father.
“It’s like my second birth today as I am going back to my home after such a long time,” said Dulari after meeting her father Gonosurin, who reached Karnal along with Guru Charan Nayak, former MLA of Manoharpur.
Dulari said she did not know the person who brought her from her village in Jharkhand but she remembers that she was first sent to a house in Delhi to work as a domestic help. A few months later, she was taken to Chandigarh and there she met a woman named Hema. “Hema used to send me to work as maid in several houses in Chandigarh, but I did not get my salary, which was paid to Hema.”
She said when she was sent to Kathuria’s residence around seven months ago in Karnal, his family was also asked to pay her salary to Hema.
“We brought her at our residence, but Hema used to take her salary for the first four months. Later, Dulari told us that she never got any money for the work she had been doing. She also told us that she had no idea about her parents and their address,” Kathuria said.
To get the details about her parents in Jharkhand, he took up the issue with “some people” in the Jharkhand government and got into touch with former MLA Nayak, who helped him to trace her family members.
Kathuria said “I will lodge a complaint against Hema so that people behind this incident could be exposed.”