New Delhi: Delhi Police today claimed to have busted a gang trafficking minor girls
with the arrest of four persons and rescued three underage girls.
A
14-year-old girl had been reported missing yesterday from Geeta Colony
area in Shahdara. Efforts were on to locate the girl after registering a
case, said Nupur Prasad, DCP(Shahdara).
Acting on human and
technical intelligence, police managed to rescue the girl from Palla
village in Gautam Buddh Nagar in Uttar Pradesh within 24 hours, she
said.
The girl was produced before a child welfare committee and her statement was recorded.
It
was found that she was sold for Rs 4 lakh to 32-year-old Neeraj. In the
case registered earlier, other relevant sections of the IPC and the
POCSO Act were added, she said.
Neeraj was arrested and grilled
by police. He disclosed that the girl was sold to him by Anuj and his
wife. Both were arrested along with another accused Babloo, she said.
Two other minor girls were rescued from the house of Anuj. A separate case was registered in this connection.
During
interrogation, the accused revealed that there are four more girls with
their gang. A team has been constituted to rescue them and to arrest
the other accused, Prasad said.
The gang used to look for minors
at busy places like railway and bus stations in Delhi-NCR and pick them
up and sell them to buyers, she added.
PTI
