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Punishment Of 170-year Jail Term For Trafficking Girls
By KTM Metro Reporter
July 11, 2012: hearing on the human trafficking case, a single bench of Judge Ananta Raj Dumre of the Sidhupalchowk District Court today convicted 37-year-old Bajir Singh Tamang of Shikharpur VDC of the same district of human trafficking and sent him to jail for 170 years.
Bajir Singh Tamang had trafficked six teenage girls to the Indian city of Agra and sold them there in brothels. The victims fled the brothels and returned home and filed separate cases against Tamang at different times at the Sidhupalchowk District Court. The victims between 14 and 17 years were trafficked to India taking advantage of the open border between Nepal and India, and sold them at the brothels for prostitution in 2008 and 2009. Four victims are Dalits and two are Newars. They were students at local schools at the time of trafficking by Tamang and his accomplices, writes ‘The Himalayan Time’.
The single bench of Judge Ananta Raj Dumre convicted Sukaman Dong and Tek Bahadur Sunar of being accomplices in trafficking the girls to India, and sentenced Sukaman Dong for 16 years in jail and Tek Bahadur Sunar for 12.5 years, write ‘The Himalayan Times’ and nepalnews.com.
The judge also imposed the fine of Rs 1.3 million on Tamang, and directed him to pay Rs 150,000 to each of the victims as compensation.
The police had arrested Tamang in Kathmandu on November 30, 2011. He had been on the most wanted list of the Nepal Police since 2008 for four different charges concerning the human trafficking, writes nepalnews.com.
