Palamu police have rescued a minor girl sold off for Rs 70,000 in Chhaterpur of Madhya Pradesh, said SP Palamu Chandan Kumar Sinha this evening. Her buyer Bakka Yadav is at large, he said. Three people who helped in this sale of the minor girl of Jharkhand have been arrested and today they were remanded in judicial custody in Daltonganj.
Sinha said one of the three Rakesh is of Madhya Pradesh while the other two Jitender and Rohit are of Garhwa district.
OC Ramgarh police station Prabhat Ranjan Rai said the girl's mother had lodged a complaint on August 4 last year. Prabhat said we raided Ramanujganj in Chhattisgarh and Chhatarpur in Madhya Pradesh and finally got our Jharkhand girl rescued. The SP said the girl was shown a big dream of big wages a day by the three arrested now and the poor girl just walked into their well conceived plan. He said there was a prospective buyer already and then this girl was offered to him by Bakka Yadav who bought her for Rs 70,000.
Bakka Yadav began to have her like his wife nevertheless he is to pay for his offense, added the SP.
