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Women Trafficking Active In Nepal
By KTM Metro Reporter
August 18, 2013: Police have rescued three eighth grade girl students studying at the Durga Higher Secondary School in Maharudra of the Baitadi district yesterday while they were on the way to Mahendranagar for going to India, according to the RSS news on ‘gokhapatraonline.com.’
The rescued students are Laxmi Chanda 15 of Mharudra VDC-1, Sushila Chanda of same VDC-3 and Ganapati Dayal 14, of the VDC-2. The police turned over the rescued girls to their respective relatives yesterday.
The police have stopped the girls on suspicion of trafficking them to India. According to the police, the girls supposed to go to Punjab, India with a Nepali agent but his name and address has not been identified, yet. A teacher of the same school, Deepak Dayal, has reportedly worked as an agent in Nepal to take them to India.
Local women of Sankhejung VDC in the Ilam district have launched an anti-trafficking campaign to make the illiterate girls and women in the society aware of women trafficking. They have established the Maiti Nepal Women Pressure Group under the coordination of Shobhana Rai. The group would report suspected activities of women trafficking to the nearby police and the India-Nepal border authorities in a bid to check the crime, said coordinator Rai, according to the RSS news on ‘gorkhapatraonline.com’.
