Odisha police arrest one person from Uttar Pradesh in connection with trafficking of minor girl

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The Odisha constabulary person arrested a antheral from Jhansi, Uttar Pradesh, successful transportation with the trafficking and forcible matrimony of a insignificant tribal girl. Authorities said that the probe volition beryllium expanded to bring much individuals progressive nether its scope.

The girl, lured with the committedness of a job, was trafficked from Kankadahad country successful Dhenkanal territory to Jhansi by a middleman. In her ailment to Kamakshyanagar constabulary station, she alleged that she was sold to 2 families successful Jhansi and subjected to intersexual battle by aggregate men implicit a play of astir 2 years.

Police confirmed that Binay Patra, accused of sending the miss to Jhansi, had already been arrested earlier. The latest apprehension is of Chandrapal Kushwah (26), who confessed to marrying the insignificant aft spending ₹30,000 connected the ceremony. “When the miss is simply a minor, the marriage’s legitimacy does not arise,” said Jitendra Mallick, Inspector-in-Charge of Kamakshyanagar constabulary station.

According to the girl’s complaint, she was sexually assaulted by Chandrapal, his elder brother, and 2 uncles. Civil nine groups enactment that galore young girls from Odisha and different states are trafficked to bluish India nether the guise of home enactment but are often forced into matrimony owed to skewed enactment ratios successful those regions. The subsister besides revealed that earlier being trafficked to Jhansi, she was kept successful Bhubaneswar on with 3 different girls.

Published - June 07, 2026 04:07 americium IST

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