Summary:
However, a timely approach by a city-based NGO Manav Seva Sansthan after being contacted by an NGO in the Himalayan country saved them from being handed over to the accused . In the meantime, their parents reached there to take them back, but the girls refused to go alleging brutal torture by their father and brother over their affair. The victims have been kept at a shelter house on CWC’s instructions, police said.“The victims have told us that they were burnt with tongs and forced-fed excreta, for which the investigation is underway. The NGO took the girls away for counselling after informing the Nepal police. One SI with the NGO team brought them back to Gorakhpur from Nepal,” said Dinesh Mishra, SHO, Pipiganj police station.Rajesh Mani Tripathi, director of NGO Manav Sewa Sanstha, said: “The girls were spotted sitting in a bus in Nepal by a local NGO which is primarily engaged in the work of rescuing women trafficked through the Indo-Nepal border..