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The Additional District and Sessions tribunal successful Chikkaballapur connected February 9 convicted 3 women and sentenced them to 7 years of rigorous imprisonment successful a quality trafficking and prostitution lawsuit registered by the Chikkaballapur Women Police Station successful March 2022.
According to the police, the premier accused lured the victim, aged astir 19 years, nether the pretext of offering a occupation astatine a quality parlour successful Bengaluru. The teen was a unfortunate of kid matrimony and was facing fiscal difficulty.
She was taken from Chikkaballapur to Bengaluru, and from determination to Delhi, and aboriginal confined to a room, wherever she was allegedly forced into prostitution.
The probe revealed that the accused sold the unfortunate for ₹3 lakh and confined her to a country successful a brothel, wherever the second was subjected to intersexual exploitation. Other women were besides allegedly brought to the premises for prostitution.
After 2 months, the miss managed to flight and scope her hometown earlier filing a ailment with the women constabulary presumption successful June 2022.
After the trial, the I Additional District and Sessions Judge, Chikkaballapur, convicted the accused, Venkataramanamma, to 7 years of rigorous imprisonment and a good of ₹7,000, her associates Lakshmi Narasamma, to 7 years’ RI and a good of ₹10,000, and Sharada, to 7 years’ RI and a good of ₹15,000.
The remaining accused were recovered blameworthy nether applicable sections.
The probe was conducted nether the supervision of Superintendent of Police Kushal Chowksi, IPS, portion the prosecution was led by Special Public Prosecutor Zahida Banu D.K.
