In a major breakthrough, the Cachar police team rescued three minors who were trafficked and sold in Rajasthan. Addressing the media on Wednesday about this bigger nexus involving Upper, Middle and Lower Assam’s tea garden areas, SP Cachar, Numal Mahatta said that acting on a complaint lodged by Bijit Karmakar, a resident of Gumrah, father of a missing minor on 24th January this year that on 5th January, Rupali Dutta and Ganga Ganju took his daughter Sunali Karmakar (15 years) and daughter of one of his neighbours Sumita Karmakar (15 years) to an unknown location in pretense of providing them jobs.

While Sumita somehow managed to escape from her workplace, Sunali Karmakar remained missing. Sumita later divulged upon reaching home that they were compelled to get prepared to marry some unknown person. On receipt of this information, Kalain police registered a case and a phone call from an unknown number by missing Sunali, Cachar police traced the call from Rajasthan.

Without any delay, a special ops team of four members was formed and sent to Jaipur (Rural), wherein with the help of IPS Anand Sharma, the SP office of that area and the police staff of Chandwaji PS Jaipur (Rural) found the victim Sonali Karmakar.

The rescue operation took another turn for another missing girl from Patharkandi of Sribhumi district of Assam, Sanjita Sawtal, seeing an Assam police team and speaking in local dialect rushed to them for help and said that she too was trafficked in similar fashion.

This new development was informed to SP Cachar, who in turn, with the advice of DGP Assam Harmeet Singh, with a transit remand of just 24 hours, flew them back by air on 7th March, last.

One of the prime accused, Leela Ram, who married the minor Sunali Karmakar, too was arrested and brought to Silchar. Barak Cha Sramik Union who rallied for the rescue of these minors thanked SP Cachar, DGP Assam and Chief Minister of Assam Dr. Himanta Biswa Sarma for acting swiftly and saving these minors.

Both the women, Rupali Dutta and Ganga Ganju, are still absconding and out of the state, informed SP Cachar, Numal Mahatta, but added, they won’t close the case until and unless they arrest all the perpetrators of this crime and their agents spread across the whole of Assam.

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