5 missing Uzbek women found in Delhi's Neb Sarai area

New Delhi: Five Uzbek women, who were rescued from the clutches of human traffickers and later went missing from a shelter home in Dwarka, were found in south Delhi's Neb Sarai area, police said on Saturday.

The women who were rescued by an NGO - Empowering Humanity - later told police that they had left the shelter on their own to live with people known to them as the organisation asked them for money and did not give them proper food.

According to police, the NGO's staff informed Dwarka North police station about the missing women on November 2. The NGO stated that on August 25 it had rescued seven Uzbek women from human trafficking and handed them over to the Uzbekistan Embassy, which asked them to look after the women for some time, a senior police officer said. A case in this regard was registered at Chanakyapuri Police Station at that time.

On the embassy's request, the NGO sheltered five of the women (aged between 18 to 37 years) in a society in Dwarka Sector-16B, they said. On October 28, the women were found missing, the officer said.

As per the statement of the complainant, a case under section 365 (kidnapping or abducting with intent secretly and wrongfully to confine a person) of the Indian Penal Code (IPC) was registered, he said.