Summary:
Jamshedpur, Jan 15 (PTI) Two women and a minor of Sabar tribe, who were tarfficked to Madhya Pradesh , were rescued by East Singhbhum district police and five accused, including a woman were arrested, a senior police officer said here on Saturday.
The women were sold by a resident of Hatiapata village in Ghatsila sub-division of the district in connivance with an associate from Odisha, said senior superintendent of police M Tamil Vanan.
An FIR had been filed by the father of the Sabar woman stating that she and four others besides a minor girl of the tribe, all residents of Sabar Bustee at Pahadpur village, had been lured by the main accused on the promise of a job at a bangle factory in Madhya Pradesh two months ago.
Unable to get any news of his daughter since her departure, the man had approached the police and filed the FIR, the SSP said.
Following this, a special police team headed by deputy superintendent of police (Musaboni) Chandrasekhar Azad was sent to Madhya Pradesh on January 6 and the three were rescued during investigation and the five accused were arrested, he said.
The Sabar tribe belong to the Munda ethnic group and were classified as one of the "criminal tribes" under Criminal Tribes Act 1871 and suffer from social stigma in modern times.