15-yr-old girl rescued from GB Road after FB post to Maliwal

The Delhi Commission for Women (DCW) rescued a 15-year-old girl from the city's GB Road red-light district late Friday, after a youth informed about the victim's plight on the Facebook page of DCW's chairperson Swati Maliwal.

The youth was called to DCW office, where the team asked him further details about the girl's whereabouts and her age.

Following the input, the Commission approached police and the rescue was made from one of the brothels located there.

According to DCW, the girl was initially hesitant to share details of her ordeal, but later opened up.

The girl said that she is a resident of Bihar and both her parents had passed away when she was very young, after which she had been staying with her maternal aunt.ry young, after which she had been staying with her maternal aunt.

She was kidnapped from her aunt's house by an unknown woman and sold to the brothel owner at GB road at the age of nine.

The brothel owner had initially sent the victim to stay with one of his relatives.

When the girl turned 11, he brought her back to the brothel and was asked to entertain customers since then.

The victim told DCW that her first customer was much older than her and when she refused to entertain him, she was tied to a pole and brutally beaten up. She was then raped by five different men and since then she was forced to sleep with customers every night.

Maliwal said that minor girls are regularly trafficked and forced into prostitution at GB Road.

The whole racket is flourishing right under the nose of the establishment, with the Parliament situated just three km away and the nearest police station just 100 m away from the GB Road area, where the brothels are operational.

The DCW chairperson demanded that these brothels be immediately closed down, the women be rehabilitated and the people involved in running the brothels and in the trafficking racket be punished as per the law.