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12 Nepali girls being trafficked to India rescued

Representational image for human trafficking
Representational image for human trafficking

Kathmandu, November 9

Police have rescued 12 Nepali girls allegedly being trafficked to India.

Of them, four were rescued from the Indian border in Parsa district and the remaining from India.

The girls were taken to the border from Balaju in Kathmandu under the pretext of providing a job at musical programmes in Siraha and Sarlahi districts in Nepal, it has been said.

They were lured with Rs 2,000 each for a stage show. The girls were divided into various groups after reaching a forest in Pathalaiya and were taken to the Indian border and then to India through an alternative transit in Parsa district, says Indra Raj Bhattarai, the director of a social organisation named Aaphanta Nepal, which helped rescue the trafficked girls.

The rescued girls are now under the care of the Aaphanta Nepal.

A man who accompanied them has been arrested by the police.

The girls were trafficked to India taking advantage of their poverty, unemployment and ongoing global Covid-19 pandemic, says Bhattarai.

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