Jaipur:
A large -scale marriage organizing for women from poor families has been exposed to a human trafficking racket being run under the guise of an NGO. Women, officials running the NGO, said, girls of agents will buy girls smuggling from poor families and ‘sell them’ to young men in search of bride for Rs 2.5-5 lakh.
Officials said the Gayatri Sarwa Samaj Foundation had established its office in a farmhouse in Sujanpura village of Basi, about 30 km from Jaipur, and claimed to organize a large -scale marriage.
Members of a gang will ‘purchase’ girls from poor families of Bihar, West Bengal, Odisha and Uttar Pradesh and ‘sell’ Gayatri Vishwakarma, director of ‘NGOs’. Abhijeet Patil, in-charge of stale police station, said that Gayatri, in return, wanted to marry these girls for Rs 8.5-5 lakh.
Officials said that ‘value’ was fixed according to the color, height and age of girls. Gayatri will arrange a fake Aadhaar card for minors to show that he was over 18 years of age. He had arranged about 1,500 such marriage and there were ten cases against him.
The girl survives
The racket came to light when a 16 -year -old girl, who was from Uttar Pradesh, ran away from the farmhouse on Sunday and approached the police. Based on the girl’s statement, the police raided the farmhouse and arrested Gayatri, her associates Hanuman and two others – who was identified as Bhagwan Das and Mahendra – who went there to ‘buy’ the teenager.
Villagers said that they all knew about the ‘NGO’ that it did not make much information for girls from poor families as the farmhouse was on the village edge. He said that another girl survived four months ago and tried to tell them what was happening, but they could not understand the language in which she was talking.
(With input from Somu Anand)
