New Delhi, April 25: In another shocking incident of human trafficking and rape, a girl from Sambhal lodged an FIR against her father, stepmother and aunt after being trafficked at the age of 8 to a man in Rajasthan. As per reports, after being trafficked, the girl gave birth to four children by the time she was 16.  According to a report by TOI, the FIR states that the girl's parents sold her to a man in Bharatpur in 2010 while her sisters, who were six and four years old then, were also sold to people in Rajasthan.

It must be noted that the girls belong to the minority community. Describing the ordeal, the report said that after eight years of captivity, the eldest girl was raped and gave birth four times. The report further informs that she managed to escape from a house in Bharatpur where she was confined and reached a relative's house in Sambhal.

As per details, the Police lodged an FIR under sections 366 A (procuration of minor girl), a rarely-invoked section along with 372 (selling minor for purposes of prostitution) and 370 A (exploitation of trafficked person) of the IPC and have begun investigations. According to a TOI report, the father, stepmother, aunt and the man who bought the girl have been named in the FIR and efforts are on to arrest them. Medical reports inform that prima facie appears to have been raped and has given birth.

Reports inform that the girl's father is a truck driver and he told his sister that he had got the girls married off in Rajasthan to suitable men, whereas he had sold them to men. According to the girl, her father got married again after his first wife passed away in 2010. According to the TOI report, Junaid Arshi, the man who gave shelter to the victim said, “The girl's father's sister is my acquaintance. On Monday, the aunt told me to give shelter to the girl because her life is in danger. I was shocked to hear her ordeal”.

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