N-K girls palmed off to areas bordering Pak
The Newindpress.com
Wednesday December 6 2006 09:02 IST
HUBLI: It now turns out that young girls hoodwinked into marrying ‘wealthy’ but aged north Indians are often palmed off to brothels operating along Pakistan borders.
Girls from north Karnataka region, particularly from Lambani and Jain communities, are said to be the most sought-after for agents involved in racket in western part of Gujarat, Kutch, and areas of Rajasthan and Punjab bordering Pakistan.
This newspaper quizzed Gurunathsa Basava, who is now cooling his heels in the district prison after being caught by the Police in connection with girl-trafficking, said that the local middlemen will get commission four times the normal rate of they sell a girl to an agent operating in the border areas of Pak.
They pay between Rs 1-2 lakh for a Lambani or a Jain girl. Asked why they preferred these girls, he said they could speak the language of north India fluently. Police sources said the girls belonging to other communities like Valmiki, Bhajantri, Gondhali, Vaddar, Gouli and others were vulnerable to flesh trade locally.
The incident of Soumya and her sister Neelamma of Soratur village of Shirahatti taluk in Gadag district reveled the ugly face of trafficking in girls.
Both sisters, studying in 10th standard, went missing from Gadag bus stand a month ago. But it has now turned out that Soumya escaped from her captors in Surat and is under the care of Gujarat police.
What is intriguing is that these two girls were sold by their father, and he never filed a police complaint after his children went ‘missing.’
Villagers suspect a person of the same village acted as a middleman in the sale for Rs 1 lakh each to some men in Gujarat. They feel that many other missing cases too might reveal a similar tale.
A team of Gadag police are on their way to Surat to bring the two girls back to Soratur village. Once they are back, the entire case is sure to bring out many more startling details.
The story of Lakshmi (16) in Hubli is no different from that of Soumya.
Lakshmi’s father Prakash Baddi struck a deal with four Maharastrians and made her to marry aged Rajesh Ramalal Bedhmuth in a farmhouse here. However, Hubli Police rescued her and arrested Bedhmuth and his aides before they fled. The police here are keeping a close vigil on matrimonial centres.
The Newindpress.com
Wednesday December 6 2006 09:02 IST
HUBLI: It now turns out that young girls hoodwinked into marrying ‘wealthy’ but aged north Indians are often palmed off to brothels operating along Pakistan borders.
Girls from north Karnataka region, particularly from Lambani and Jain communities, are said to be the most sought-after for agents involved in racket in western part of Gujarat, Kutch, and areas of Rajasthan and Punjab bordering Pakistan.
This newspaper quizzed Gurunathsa Basava, who is now cooling his heels in the district prison after being caught by the Police in connection with girl-trafficking, said that the local middlemen will get commission four times the normal rate of they sell a girl to an agent operating in the border areas of Pak.
They pay between Rs 1-2 lakh for a Lambani or a Jain girl. Asked why they preferred these girls, he said they could speak the language of north India fluently. Police sources said the girls belonging to other communities like Valmiki, Bhajantri, Gondhali, Vaddar, Gouli and others were vulnerable to flesh trade locally.
The incident of Soumya and her sister Neelamma of Soratur village of Shirahatti taluk in Gadag district reveled the ugly face of trafficking in girls.
Both sisters, studying in 10th standard, went missing from Gadag bus stand a month ago. But it has now turned out that Soumya escaped from her captors in Surat and is under the care of Gujarat police.
What is intriguing is that these two girls were sold by their father, and he never filed a police complaint after his children went ‘missing.’
Villagers suspect a person of the same village acted as a middleman in the sale for Rs 1 lakh each to some men in Gujarat. They feel that many other missing cases too might reveal a similar tale.
A team of Gadag police are on their way to Surat to bring the two girls back to Soratur village. Once they are back, the entire case is sure to bring out many more startling details.
The story of Lakshmi (16) in Hubli is no different from that of Soumya.
Lakshmi’s father Prakash Baddi struck a deal with four Maharastrians and made her to marry aged Rajesh Ramalal Bedhmuth in a farmhouse here. However, Hubli Police rescued her and arrested Bedhmuth and his aides before they fled. The police here are keeping a close vigil on matrimonial centres.
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