Woman raped by 30 men for five months, escapes
A 22-year-old Nepali woman, who was allegedly raped by at least 30 people over the past five months after she was sold to a brothel at GB Road in Delhi, managed to escape and lodged an FIR.
Based on the complaint, Delhi Police, Delhi Commission for Women and a NGO conducted a joint raid in the brothel on Saturday and arrested a woman, who allegedly forced the victim into prostitution.
According to the DCW, a woman approached the victim, Pinki (name changed), in Nepal and offered her with a job in Dubai. She was, however, trafficked to India and sold to a brothel at GB Road.
“She was allegedly assaulted, kept hungry for several days and forced to sleep with around 30 customers over the past five months,” said Bhupinder Singh, media advisor of DCW.
Pinki told DCW officials that a few days ago a rumour spread in the brothel that police could be raiding the place.
The women were being shifted to a secure location by the brothel owners. She managed to escape taking advantage of the melee.
After her escape, the victim got in touch with some person from east Delhi whom she used to know .
Meanwhile, an NGO working on human trafficking was tipped off about this incident.
The NGO traced the girl and sought the help of DCW to register a police complaint.
The DCW swung into action and helped the victim lodge a complaint against the woman who forced her into prostitution. The woman was arrested on the basis of the victim’s complaint.
“This is the modus operandi of traffickers who work on GB Road. They lure women from small cities and neighbouring countries by promising jobs. The women are however sold to brothels and forced into prostitution once they land in Delhi,” said Swati Maliwal, DCW chairperson.
The Capital will get its first batch of 500 buses that will have the facility of common mobility cards in two weeks.
The Delhi government has begun procuring chips known as Secure Access Modules (SAMs) from South Korea to ensure cashless transportation in the city. These chips will be fitted in the electronic ticketing machines that have already been handed over to the bus conductors.
“The Delhi Integrated MultiModal Transit System is procuring the first 100 SAM chips . These will be rolled out immediately. We need 2,000 more such chips for cluster buses for which tenders have already been floated.,” said a transport official.
In the first phase, the government will introduce this system in 100 cluster buses and 400 Delhi Transport Corporation (DTC) buses. The DTC is outsourcing the project and procuring ticketing machines that would already be fitted with the SAM chips.
By extending the DMRCs smart card for cluster buses, the commuter will be able to pay the fare using the Delhi Metro Rail Corporation’s smart card.
The DTC runs over 3,900 buses in the city and another 1,600 buses are being run by the DIMTS under the Cluster scheme.
SWETA GOSWAMI