New Delhi: It was a dream that remained unfulfilled. "Father, I will send you money after I get a better job in Delhi." This is what she probably told her father, who is a labourer in a remote corner in Jharkhand, before Ankita (named change) left for Delhi some four months ago.
Fortunately, she was hired as a domestic help in an affluent doctor's family in Model Town, northwest Delhi. But the faith as it was, the little 14-year-old was burnt, beaten, attacked with scissor, spat at and bitten by the lady employer who is a doctor!
But her 45-year-old father, who just landed in the city with the help of Jharkhand Government, it was a just nightmare that he never dreamed of. The father, who came to the city for the first time, went straight to the hospital, where his 'angel' was undergoing treatment, to meet her.
With tears in his eyes, and cut marks in the foot, he had no words to open up his mouth when he looked at the little girl, who was lying helplessly on the hospital bed. After coming out of the room, he said his daughter wanted to see her mother and she would never come to Delhi again.
Speaking to the Millennium Post, the father said meeting her daughter after four months was so emotional and never thought that she will suffer so in pain, crying.
"I stopped her when she was going to Delhi but she said she wanted to earn money for the family," said the father. The girl was showing her wounds to the father.
He said her daughter wanted to study ... now after going back to Jharkhand, he will not let her go out. "Her job is to study now...I will make sure she doesn't go anywhere," said the father.
He narrated that a woman who lived in front of his house took her on the pretext of the better life in the Capital. "This was not the first time my daughter had come to Delhi, she also came earlier with the same woman, named Anita, but that time she returned home with some money claiming that her employer was good," said the 45-year-old man.
A police officer of the Anti Human Trafficking Unit (AHTU) of Jharkhand also accompanied the father who stated that the area of Chaibasa in Jharkhand where the father lives is a Naxalite affected region. To reach him the police force moved by foot as there were chances of bomb being planted under the earth. The areas are mountainous region and have many rivers. "Traffickers sold girls for 20 to 25,000 rupees in Delhi. There are chances that the lady had brought more girls to Capital. We are investigating," said the officer.
The family of the girl was very poor and the place where they live is more than 30 kilometers from the proper urban centre. The daughter-father walks more than 20-25 kilometers to earn money.
One Rishikant from NGO Shaktivahini stated that the area where the family lives was less developed. "Families living in such area where development is very less, they should be given jobs so that poverty ends. Due to poverty villagers fell prey to traffickers," said Rishikant.