Silchar, Assam, March 12 (HBTV): The Cachar police have rescued three female minors who were trafficked and sold in Rajasthan. Addressing the media about a bigger nexus involving upper, middle, and lower Assam's tea garden areas. Cachar’s superintendent of police Numal Mahatta said the authorities acted on a complaint lodged by one Bijit Karmakar, a resident of Gumrah, father of a missing minor, on January 24 this year. On January 5, two persons identified as one Rupali Dutta and Ganga Ganju took his daughter Sunali Karmakar (15 years) and a neighbor’s daughter Sumita Karmakar (15 years) to an unknown location on the pretext of providing them jobs.   

While Sumita somehow managed to escape from her workplace, Sunali Karmakar remained missing. Sumita later divulged upon reaching home that they were compelled to be prepared to marry some unknown persons. On receiving this information, Kalain police registered a case. Following a phone call from an unknown number by the missing Sunali, Cachar police traced the call to Rajasthan.   

A special operations team of four members was formed and sent to Jaipur wherein with the help of the superintendent of police of the areas, Anand Sharma, and police staff of Chandwaji PS Jaipur, the police found the victim Sonali Karmakar.   

The rescue operation took another turn for another missing girl from Patharkandi of Sribhumi district of Assam, Sanjita Sawtal. Seeing an Assam police team and speaking in her local dialects, she rushed to them for help and said that she too was trafficked in a similar fashion. This new development was informed to SP Cachar who in turn with the advice of Assam’s Director General of Police (DGP) Harmeet Singh with a transit remand of just 24 hours flew them back by air on March 7, updates said.

One of the prime accused person, one Leela Ram, who married the minor Sunali Karmakar too was arrested and brought to Silchar.   

Barak Cha Sramik Union, a group that rallied for the rescue of the minors, thanked the Cachar police and the DGP Assam and Assam Chief Minister Dr. Himanta Biswa Sarma for acting swiftly and saving the minors.

Both the women Rupali Dutta and Ganga Ganju are still absconding and out of the state, said Numal Mahatta. But he assured that the authorities won't close the case until they arrest all the perpetrators of the crime.