Overview
- Teams from five stations led by Bikramganj additional SP Saket Kumar raided Bardihan’s red-light area after an intelligence tip.
- The girls, identified as residents of Chhattisgarh and Madhya Pradesh, were placed with the Child Welfare Committee in Sasaram.
- Detainees named as Mamta Vishwakarma, Gita Kunwar, and Raman Kumar Paswan alias Munna were arrested at the site.
- Offences cited include sections of the Bharatiya Nyaya Sanhita, POCSO, the Immoral Traffic (Prevention) Act, and the Bonded Labour System Act; more suspects are being pursued.
- The teenagers were shifted to a Mohania children’s home, and the NCPCR was notified, with police probing links to recruitment posing as orchestra work from MP, Chhattisgarh, and Jharkhand.