Kidnapped from Assam, minor girl found kept as ‘Molki’ in Fatehabad village
Sushil Manav
Tribune News Service
Chandigarh, August 12
The Fatehabad police have rescued a minor Assamese girl from Badiwali village in the district. Bhal Singh, a resident of the village, was keeping the girl as his “procured” wife.
A team of the Mahila police station raided Bhal Singh’s house today upon a communication from the Assam Police which stated that the girl was kidnapped and an FIR was registered there in this connection.
“We have kept the girl in protection home set up for runaway couples and are waiting for the arrival of a police team from Assam which is on its way to Fatehabad,” said Bimla Devi, SHO, Mahila police station, Fatehabad.
She said no arrest had been made since the police were unable to decipher the contents of the FIR written in Assamese. She said that the police team from Assam would take action, whatever was needed.
Sources said that the girl’s family had lodged a complaint at the Barpeta police station in Assam after she went missing on July 12.
She had gone out to a tailor for stitching of clothes when she was allegedly kidnapped by some unknown persons and brought to Delhi where she was sold to Bhal Singh.
The girl’s family came to know all this only when the girl somehow found Bhal Singh’s mobile phone lying in her room and called her brother and narrated her misfortune.
A policeman from Barpeta police station said that a case of kidnapping under Section 366 of the IPC was registered.
He said the police team accompanied by the victim’s brother would reach Fatehabad by tomorrow to recover the girl.
Due to poor sex ration, villagers in several districts of the state, particularly Sirsa, Fatehabad and Hisar, procure women from Assam, Odisha, Bengal and some other states and keep them as wives.
In local parlance, such women are addressed as ‘Molkis’ (purchased for money).
