08 July,2010 09:28 AM IST | | Kaumudi Gurjar
Trafficked from Bangladesh, they were kept in a brothel and forced into prostitution
Two Bangladeshi girls were lured with the promise of a job to cross the border, only to end up in a city brothel. They were rescued on Tuesday evening.
The girls were rescued by officials from Faraskhana police station after they had spent nine days in the brothel.
The police were successful in arresting the trafficker along with the brothel manager who forced the girls into prostitution. After a tip-off, a team of the Faraskhana police stormed into the first floor of Janata building in Budhwar Peth and rescued the sisters hailing from Kasimada Thana in Satkira. The girls were between 17 to 21 years of age.
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Senior Police Inspector Venkat Gangalwad who conducted the raid said, to evade arrest the trafficker Kamrul Rashid Mulla claimed that he was married to one of the rescued girls. But Gangalwad said that the girls revealed in the interrogation that they were not married to Mulla.
The police also arrested brothel manager Reshma Barek Haldar who had forced both the girls into prostitution. Haldar and Mulla were booked by the police under PITA act and Foreign Citizen Act 1948 section 3 (1) for staying illegally in the country without a passport.
According to the police, in a case filed in May, Mulla was found to be involved in trafficking minor girls from Bangladesh to India.
