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Two more Mizo girls rescued from Mumbai brothel

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AIZAWL: Mizoram police has rescued two more Mizo girls from a brothel in Mumbai.

The four-member police team led by Joseph Lalchhuana, SP CID (Crime) and officer in-charge of police’s anti-human trafficking unit brought home the two girls on Saturday.

The police team was accompanied in the rescue operation by Jimmy Laltlanmawia, coordinator of Salvation Army-sponsored Community Health Action Network (CHAN), an organisation working against human trafficking in Mizoram since 2005.

These two girls were among the four girls, who had been allegedly transported to Mumbai by a Mizo woman Zodingliani(27) alias Tedingi and Rosy, in April last with a promise of getting them jobs in beauty parlours and modelling agency.

The incident was exposed after one of the victims called up her relatives in Mizoram and explained what had happened to her, an FIR was immediately filed at Kolasib police station under which jurisdiction the accused’s claimed address Vairengte falls.

The Mizoram’s home department promptly formed a rescue team, which reached Mumbai on June 19 and rescued two girls on June 20 from a prostitution racket in a place called Jung Santacruz in Mumbai.

According to the victims’ statements, the accused, who worked with her Nepali husband Shodit Hasta Thapa, threatened to defame them if they expose the incident.

In fear of being exposed in the public, they remained silent, sources said.

After they were arrested from Mumbai, the alleged trafficking couple were being incarcerated in Kolasib district jail.

Sources said the couple, who usually posed as employees of Godrej Company, had suspectedly sold more than just four girls to prostitution racket in Mumbai.

Meanwhile, the couple’s alleged accomplice, identified as Gopal Dhokal Mandal, 32, was arrested in Mumbai by the Mizoram police team on June 27.

The Mizoram police has sought his custody which a special court for PITA in Mumbai has granted, sources said, adding that he would be brought to Mizoram on July 7. (PTI)

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