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By Devesh K. Pandey
NEW DELHI, SEPT. 13. A 12-year-old girl, who was abducted from her Jehangirpuri house in North-West Delhi about five years ago and was allegedly criminally assaulted and administered hormonal injections by her captors to prepare her for flesh trade in Mumbai, was rescued from Sayeed Nagar in Agra this past weekend. Eight persons were arrested and another victim was rescued during the operation. The police said the victim was abducted from Jehangirpuri in 1999 apparently by some members of the Beriya community when she was just seven. A case in this regard was registered at the local police station, but the girl was not traced. The Agra police said the other victim was abducted when she was four-years-old. After the abduction, the victims were taken to Sayeed Nagar and kept there in confinement. It is alleged that they were criminally assaulted by the accused. Acting on a tip-off that several minor girls had been kept in confinement to be pushed into prostitution, the Agra police mounted a raid at the hide-out of the accused and rescued two of the victims. Eight people, seven of whom have been identified as Ummeed Singh, his wife, Vimla, Hema, Rekha, Munna and his wife, Sunita, were arrested from the spot. Investigations revealed that one of the girls had been abducted from Jehangirpuri. Subsequently, her father was traced by the police. During questioning, the victims told the police that their captors used to regularly administer injections to them. The accused revealed that they were hormonal injections, which were administered for their rapid growth so that they could be pushed into prostitution. They further disclosed that they were planning to sell the girls to pimps in Mumbai. The police suspect that the gang was supplying minor girls to some Mumbai bars as well. When contacted, the Jehangirpuri police said that they had been contacted by the relatives of one of the victims. The police suspect that they were into this abduction business for the past several years and could have sold off several girls to flesh traders.
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