3 arrested in trafficking, rape case

The Delhi police has arrested three persons, including a woman, in a case of alleged trafficking and rape of a young girl, who was lured from West Bengal with the promise of marriage, but was being forced into prostitution. While the victim ( 19), a resident of a village in West Bengal was rescued from Kabir Nagar and her statement recorded by a northeast district police team, the sleuths arrested three persons, identified as Shahjahan Molliya, alias Bapi ( 27), Nafees, alias Sameer ( 28), and a 27- yearold woman. A case vide Sections 323, 354, 366, 368, 370, 376 and 120B of the IPC was registered at police station Welcome on May 24.

According to the police, they received a PCR call that one young woman was being beaten by three boys at 2nd Floor of C- 16/ 2, Gali No. 16, Kabir Nagar. When the team reached the spot, they found a girl, about 19 years, in a traumatised state. Not able to speak or understand either Hindi or English, we took her to G. T. B. Hospital and got her medical examination done.

After her counselling by an NGO, the victim in her statement revealed that she belongs to a village in North 24 Pargana district, West Bengal. Her father had died and her mother worked as a tailor from home to make ends meet. A few days ago, one neighbour gave her the mobile number of one Shahjahan Molliya, who also lives near her house in her village, and told her that he is a good boy and will marry her. As they started talking to each other, Bapi made a marriage proposal and asked her to come to Delhi. When she arrived Old Delhi Railway Station on May 20, he took her to a hotel near Jama Masjid and raped her on the pretext of marrying her.

Bapi took her to one Raju’s house, where Raju also raped her.