BHUBANESWAR: RPF police rescued five girls; including three minors from Bhubaneswar railway station here on Tuesday as the inter-state trafficker was taking them to Madurai to engage them in an unorganised sector.
Railway police rescued after getting information from a passenger regarding trafficking of five women by Bhadrak-Baripada Intercity Express train. They were going to Madurai to work in a factory. But police is suspecting that the trafficker had another plan besides factory work. A youth also arrested by railway police who was coming with the girls.
Programme Manager of Bhubaneswar Childline Rameswari Prasad Dwibedi informed that they have produced five girls before CWC and all were from Tihidi block of Bhadrak district. Regarding the incident Bhubaneswar Labour Officer contacted with Bhadrak Labour Officer for the safe return of the girls to their home.
When we contacted with the State Convenor of Campaign Against Child Labour (CACL) and Director of Berhampur Childline Sudhir Sabat, he said that it was the second time the Railway police rescued minor girls from the same district. Before, Berhampur Childline with the help of GRP had rescued four minors among eight girls from Dhamnagar and the rural areas of Bhadrak district. “If the same incident happens regularly, administration should keep eye on the vulnerable areas where trafficking occurs and plan out accordingly. It should give stress on Self Help Groups for self reliance of the women along with proper implementation of MGNREGA, which would stop rural migration,” Sabat said to The Pioneer.
“Traffickers should be booked under Immoral Trafficking Act (ITC) and the rescued girls should be counseled properly. After the counseling by CWC, they should handover the girls to the Ujjawal home, but immediate handover of the girls to the parents is not the way,” said Sabat.
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