Pramesh Jain
The All woman Shakti team of Bengaluru RPF rescued a minor girl aged about 15-year-old run away girl while she was being trafficked in a Bangalore to Danapur town on Friday.
The RPF personnel who were on patrol duty confronted the victim and questioned her.She seemed scared and requested help to save her.
On counselling the said girl revealed her name and address as a resident of Purvi Champaran (Motihari),Bihar,a senior officer said .
further inquiries revealed that she had run away from home due to repeated sexual harrasment and rape by her father. Her mother was aware but would not intervene.She also stated that her parents had fixed her marriage forcefully. Hence, she ran away from home.
She managed to reach the city last year but was drugged by an unknown person who kept her in a windowless cell for about a month and now was taking her to some unknown place, the officer said quotating the statement of the girl. The personnel searched for the person accompanying her but in vain.
After the formalities,the girl was handed over to Bosco Child Home for further safe keeping and necessary legal action under POSCO Act and other relevant Acts he added.
