Fathers Sell Minor Daughters for Rs 40,000 Each in Assam, Girls Trafficked to Arunachal, Rescued

Moran: In a major case of child trafficking, two minor girls aged 12 and 13 years were rescued from traffickers. The two minors were taken from Moran in Assam's Dibrugarh district to Arunachal Pradesh. The fathers of the two minor girls had sold off their daughters for just Rs 40,000 each.

The girls were trafficked to Arunachal Pradesh in February this year. They were kept in some house in Arunachal Pradesh where they were working as house help and as child labour.

The rescued girls have been brought back to Moran and have been handed over to Childline, an organisation that works for child protection. A case has been registered. Two people have been arrested.

Moran Police team with the help of Arunachal police in a joint operation in Arunachal Pradesh rescued the two children.

The arrested persons have been identified as Raju Nayak (42) and Binon Karmakar (38). Karmakar sold his own child and the other child to the traffickers.

The matter came to light after an FIR was filed by the All Assam Tea Tribes Students Association (AATTSA) at Moran police station.

An Arunachalee woman is said to have settled in Moran and is running the trafficking business. Police have launched a manhunt for the woman.

In September 2020, 12 children, aged between 13 and 17 years, and 15 adults were trafficked to Arunachal Pradesh from Barpeta district in western Assam. They were trafficked to the East Kameng district in Arunachal Pradesh were kept as bonded labour for nearly a month until a district child welfare committee rescued them.

In the same year, as many as 216 cases were registered amid the countrywide lockdown. Of these, 113 cases were related to sexual abuse of children, 13 cases were related to child labour, three of abduction, 47 cases of child marriage.

As per data released by the Assam State Commission for Protection of Child Rights, Assam saw a 55 per cent increase in child trafficking in 2019.

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