Amritsar girl being trafficked rescued at IGI

New Delhi: A girl from Amritsar being trafficked to Bahrain was rescued by the CISF outside the IGI airport on Wednesday evening.
Simar (name changed) was being forced to travel to Bahrain by her grandmother and an agent and was discovered by CISF officials as she stood crying outside Terminal 3. This was the third time that she was being forced to travel to the Gulf. She had already worked as a bar dancer in Dubai last year. Three months back when she was being taken to Bahrain, the two men with her were arrested and she was sent back to Amritsar.
"The girl was spotted by security officials outside departure gate no 7 at T3. She had been crying and there was nobody around her. When officials questioned her, she said she was being forced to travel to Bahrain on Gulf Air GF-137. The police was then called and a case was registered," said airport sources.
Police sources said that the girl was an orphan and had been living with her maternal grandmother in Amritsar. In 2010, she was accompanied by an agent to Dubai where she was forced to work as a bar dancer. Officials added that she was promised Rs 40,000, but was never paid. Simar told the police that to escape her fate, she consumed acid and was extradited to India. In Delhi, she was jailed for about three days as the immigration department found her papers amiss.
20/05/11 Times of India

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