Rescue of Std IX girl from being Trafficked

Rescue of Std IX girl from being Trafficked

Purnima Bali (name changed), a student of std XI, is the eldest daughter of a sex worker in Sonagachhi. For the last few months, her mother Asha Bali (name changed) had rented a house at Baruipur along with her live-in partner, Suman, who was economically dependent on her. Despite knowing about her partner’s shady past of selling girls in Kamartipuri, she begged to differ and kept her daughter under his supervision whenever she had to leave for work.
Purnima disliked Suman’s company at the beginning, but she started receiving the much-needed attention and care she craved for. On 17th February 2021, the KMWSC staff were contacted by Asha Bali that her daughter was missing. Purnima was also not receiving her mother’s phone call. With constant effort from the staff, Purnima finally received the call of our team member and informed them that she was with Suman. When our spoke to Suman, he confessed his love for her and he expressed his desire to marry Purnima and take her to Mumbai. Hearing this, her mother was sure that Suman was planning to sell her underaged daughter in the Mumbai’s red-light area on the pretext of marriage.
Quickly the KMWSC staff contacted the CHILDLINE, CRPF and Baruipur police station to prevent the girl from being trafficked. With the intervention of the police force, Purnima was returned to her mother in the early hours of February 18th, 2021.
On 24th March 2021, Purnima again fled from home on the pretext of going to school. She called her mother in the afternoon and informed her that she had married Suman and was planning to move to Mumbai soon. Asha knowing that Sumon was a human trafficker, immediately contacted KMWSC Project team. An FIR was filed against Sumon and a joint raid with two district police teams and the KMWSC staff was conducted late at night on 25th March. Initially it took some time to coordinate with different levels and departments of the Government, but ultimately with the support of the Women police station of Baruipur, Women’s police of Hoogly, BDO of Baruipur, CHILD LINE, Anti Human Trafficking Task Force of Hoogly district and the WBCPR, Purnima was rescued on 27th of March, and was taken to a Government shelter home.