Himalayan News Service

Police recently arrested six traffickers from different parts of Kathmandu and freed six women and girls from their clutches. 

Metropolitan Police Range Kathmandu arrested five traffickers — Rajan Maharjan and Kala Maharjan of Lalitpur, Yam Bahadur Thamsunga of Panchthar, Ram Kumar Thapa of Nuwakot and Rina Rai of Sunsari — for plotting to sell three women in Kuwait for a hefty sum. 

The traffickers had kept the women — Tika Pariyar, Harimaya Rai and Pabitra Dahal — at a rented room in Kapan, Kathmandu, for 28 days. The women’s home addresses have not been disclosed for security reasons. “Acting on a complaint, we rescued the women,” SP Ramesh Prasad Kharel, the MPR in-charge, said. The women were sweet-talked with the promise of free visa and lucrative jobs in Kuwait in an apparent plot to sell them for a hefty sum. 

MPR has prepared a charge sheet against the racketeers under the Trafficking in Human Act. Meanwhile, Metropolitan Police Circle Maharajgunj rescued three girls, aged under 15 years, from Bharat Guest House in Gongabu and arrested racketeer Suresh (23) of Dhaibung, Rasuwa. 

The racketeer had planned to take these innocent girls to Mumbai with the promise of a ‘money-spinning job’.

Published on: 15 June 2014 | The Himalayan Times