Assamese girl rescued in Punjab

An Assamese girl has been rescued from a remote village in Gurudwarpur area of Punjab, police said here today.
The girl was rescued by an Assam police team, which had gone to Punjab recently to search a 12-year-old girl from the same district allegedly kidnapped and sold in Punjab for flesh trade, police sources said today.
Based on an FIR lodged by the minor girl's father that his daughter was missing since August 13, a police team from Tarabari police station went to Punjab after four women and a man involved in her kidnap and sale confessed their crime.
The arrested traffickers were identified as Mamtaz Begum, Khenta Begum, Sukurjan Begum, Saniyara Begum and Shafiqul Islam, the sources said.

As they were searching for the missing girl, police found another girl from Assam in the place where the first girl was sold, they said.
This young girl was earlier taken away from Chandrapur Power House area in Guwahati and sold by Mamtaz in a remote village of Fatekachuriya in Punjab two months ago.

Though the first girl could not be traced, police said they would search for her in Mumbai where she was reportedly sold.
During the last few years, incidents of women trafficking has increased in Assam with young girls lured away on the pretext of giving them jobs outside the state and then sold in the flesh market, the sources said.

Many young girls from Assam have been rescued from Mumbai, Punjab and Delhi, they added.