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Dumka, Jan 15: Miru Tudu (20), daughter of Didimuni Marandi who is a resident of Pokhariya village under Shikaripara police station of Dumka district, has returned to her home after three years.
Miru had been allegedly trafficked to New Delhi three years ago on an offer of a lucrative job.
It may sound bizarre but Miru was paid merely Rs 5000 as remuneration against her services to a New Delhi based household for the last three years since she was trafficked.
She, however, was promised Rs 10,000 per month for the job by one Aarti Hansda of Kirtipur village under Rampurhat police station of Bengal when the latter had approached her at a local weekly haat along with another girl Chandmuni Murmu of Makdapahadi village under same police station area.
It was following the move of Miru’s mother Didimuni Marandi to approach the deputy commissioner Ravishankar Shukla and SP Ambar Lakda last month that pressure was exerted on Aarti Hansda that she could return to her home on Friday.
“Legal action against the employer of Miru Tudu will be initiated on the basis of her statement to be recorded in the court today,” officer in-charge of the Shikaripara police station Nawal Kishore Singh said adding another trafficked girl would also return soon.
One Habil Murmu, a local social activist who helped Didimuni approach the senior officials to complain about the trafficking of her daughter, however said that the administration must have to be sensitive enough to respond to the plights of such parents whose children were victimised in such a way.
“Miru is not an isolated instance of the miseries local girls particularly belonging to the tribal community have been undergoing in terms of being trafficked to faraway places on false promises of lucrative jobs,” Murmu remarked while talking to the reporters after Miru’s return.
