NHRC notice to Delhi Police Commissioner on kidnapping of girls

New Delhi, Aug 30 (UNI) The NHRC has sent a notice to the Police Commissioner of Delhi and Ajmer SP on the reported kidnapping of girls from the capital's Sultanpuri area and their trafficking to the Gulf and sought a factual report within four weeks.

Taking suo-moto cognisance of a news report about the kidnappings, the Commission said the incidents raise a serious issue of human rights violations.

According to the August 26 report, a 15-year-old girl of Budh Vihar in Sultanpuri had gone missing in July this year.

When her family approached the police station with a complaint, the police did not register any case. Subsequently on the intervention of an NGO, the family got a case registered at the police station, the report said.

It said the abducted girl had somehow managed to escape and returned to her family.

''On her return, she disclosed that she had been taken away by a youth to Ajmer on a false promise for a job. She told her parents that she was kept in a small room and several other girls were also lodged in similar rooms in the area,'' it said.

''The victim further disclosed that the girls had been forced into flesh trade and if anyone opposed, they were injected with ntoxicants,'' it added.

The victims said seven other girls from Sultanpuri area had been taken by the same person for being trafficked to Gulf countries.

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