Assam: Dhubri girl rescued in Haryana

DHUBRI: A 15-year-old girl from Dhubri town, who had gone missing in August, was rescued by Dhubri police in Haryana from human trafficking racket, and brought to Dhubri on Friday.

After an FIR was lodged by the girl’s mother on August this year, Dhubri Police swung into action and with the help of a recent phone call made by the girl to her mother from Haryana, the girl was rescued.

When police tracked the location in Haryana, Dhubri Superintendent of Police Nabin Singh sent a police team of Dhubri police to Akabarpur Barota area under Kundli Thana of Haryana on November 17. On November 19, they rescued the minor girl from there, and on Friday, November 24, the police team returned Dhubri with the girl.

The girl was handed over to her family after a medical examination and counselling. A case was registered under human trafficking sections of the IPC Act.

An intelligence source in Dhubri informed that a girl trafficking racket is active in this part of Western Assam operating in Dhubri, Kokrajhar, Bongaigaon, Chirang, Barpeta and Goalpara. Young girls with financially weak background are lured and taken to Haryana, Hyderabad (Andhra Pradesh), Maharastra and Rajasthan and are sold to red light areas. In 2022, five girls who were lured by the girls’ traffickers were later rescued by Dhubri police.

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