A day after 28 women from Nepal were rescued from two flats in Indirapuram, the Ghaziabad police on Tuesday claimed to have rescued seven more women from a flat here. The women rescued on Monday were allegedly held captive for a month.
Seventeen passports, several with visa permits, were seized during Tuesday’s raid. The police said the women had been promised housekeeping jobs in the Gulf, with extra incentive if they entered the flesh trade.
The police had arrested Kedarnath and two of his accomplices on Monday. “Sustained investigation revealed that three men, all from Nepal, ran the trafficking network,” the officer said, adding that the men have been identified as Dubai-based Anil Nepali, Nepal resident Ganesh and Kedarnath, who looked after the Delhi-NCR operations.
The police said Anil would inform Ganesh about the number of women required. Ganesh would send the women to India by bus with Kedarnath, who kept them in flats at Indirapuram and Delhi’s Vasant Kunj till their travel documents were ready. Kedarnath told the police that he was paid ₹1,000 per woman.
