Year after five minors were rescued in police raid on Budhwar Peth brothel, court convicts two women involved in prostitution racket
Year after five minors were rescued in police raid on Budhwar Peth brothel, court convicts two women involved in prostitution racket
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Au00a0sessions court convicted two human traffickers yesterday for forcing five minor Bangladeshi girls into the flesh trade in the city. Farida Altaf Shaikh, who had kidnapped two girls staying in her neighbourhood and sold them in Budhwar Peth, will face seven years of rigorous imprisonment, while Rikta Bishwas, who helped her keep one of the minors in custody, will have to spend five years behind bars and cough up Rs 5,000 as fine.
MiD DAY had approached the city police on July 8, 2009 after it received a tip-off from activist Shyam Kamble that two minors were being kept unlawfully in a brothel in Budhwar Peth.
The traffickers had hidden the minors in a dilapidated old vada. However, the Faraskhana police team, led by then Senior Police Inspector Bharatbhushan Sharma, found them and managed to rescue five minors.u00a0 A 12-year-old girl, had been kept in Bishwas' custody in a chawl in Tingrenagar as Shaikh had not been able to find any buyer for her. The team arrested Bishwas after Farida spilled the beans on her. Another trafficker Mumtaj, present during the raid, escaped.
MiD DAY lensman was able to capture her picture before she escaped.
APP Asif Basid said, "Farida, a resident of Jessore, had kidnapped the two girls and sold them in Budhwar Peth."
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