HT Bureau
DIPHU, Oct 7: In a human trafficking case, a woman who went missing from Diphu, Karbi Anglong in 2011 was finally rescued from Ziro, Arunachal Pradesh by the joint effort of the Karbi Anglong Women Justice Forum (KAWJF) and One Stop Centre, an NGO of Arunchal Pradesh.
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The victim’s parents in a press conference at the office of KAWJF here on Friday, said that in 2011 their 14-year-old daughter had gone missing.
A lady named Hanri (Ka-et) Terangpi, wife of Sarsing Teron of Birla Ram Teron, Diphu, had lured the girl from a mela in Diphu held at Karbi Anglong Sports Association (KASA) playground in 2011 and took her to Guwahati. After a few days Terangpi took the girl to Ziro in Arunachal Pradesh and handed her over to a man to work as a maid, they said.
The victim’s parents said that one day, a Karbi man from Diphu had gone to Ziro, Arunachal Pradesh to sell clothes and noticed the girl there. Upon suspicion that it might be the girl from Diphu, the cloth seller started to talk with the girl. In the course of their conversation the man came to know that the girl was brought to Ziro by some traffickers.
First, the cloth seller informed the matter to a friend now working in Nagaland Police. After getting proper information from the victim’s parents and women’s organization, the officials went to Ziro, Arunachal Pradesh to rescue the girl and bring her back. The victim now demands that the trafficker Hanri alias Ka-et Terangpi be punished as per the law of the land.
Another woman said 25 years ago, the same trafficker took her to Dimapur from Diphu and kept her for 5 days in captivity in a hotel. She was eventually able to escape away from the hotel.
