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Thursday, Jul 06, 2006

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Woman stranded in Malaysia rescued

Staff Reporter

Thiruvananthapuram: The Malayali woman who had been stranded in Malaysia, after being trapped by some agents who were running a sex racket, has been rescued and will reach her home town on July 8.

The 31-year-old woman is a resident of Sreepadam colony, Pallippuram in Thiruvananthapuram district. She will be presented before the police and taken for medical examination as soon as she arrives, the Pravasi Malayalee Development Society, which took the initiative to get the woman released, said in a statement.

The woman had been duped by three agents who had promised her a job in Singapore after taking Rs.30,000 from her. She was first sent to Singapore on a three-month visiting visa and then flown to Malaysia covertly. The woman had somehow managed to contact her husband back home and inform him that she had been trapped in a sex racket. Even though her husband had lodged a complaint at the Mangalapuram police station on June 7, no action was taken, the society alleged in a statement here.

Later, the Society took the initiative to bring the matter before the Chief Minister, the Home Minister, NORKA and the Indian High Commissioner in Malaysia. Although the Mangalapuram police later arrested three persons, the woman's release could not be managed.

Later, it was the Chief Minister who announced that the Government will bear the expenses for bringing the woman back.

One of the representatives of the Society later went to the Indian High Commissionerate in Malaysia to hand over necessary documents for securing the woman's release, the statement added.

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