A three-year battle has won a minor tribal girl, abducted by Leftwing insurgents from her village of Thutiamba under Ara police station in north Chhattisgarh district of Jashpur bordering Jharkhand in
A three-year battle has won a minor tribal girl, abducted by Leftwing insurgents from her village of Thutiamba under Ara police station in north Chhattisgarh district of Jashpur bordering Jharkhand in March 2012, freedom from “sexual slavery” in rebel camps.
The girl, 14, had left the police shell-shocked when she recounted her traumatic experience after being subjected to sexual exploitation by half-a-dozen leaders of People’s Liberation Front of India (PLFI), a breakaway group of CPI (Maoist), following her abduction.
She surrendered to the Jashpur police on Friday after escaping from a PLFI camp at Katasura in Jharkhand a couple of weeks ago. “I had gone to jungle to collect firewood in the early morning on that day when a group of armed rebels led by Hardayal waylaid me and abducted. I was sexually abused for three months in the forest where the guerrillas had set up their camp. I could escape from them only after a police party from Jharkhand raided the camp and arrested Hardayal and returned home,” she was quoted as saying by Jashpur additional district superintendent of police (ASP) Neha Pandey. However, her ordeal did not end there.
“A few days later, she was again abducted by another faction of PLFI led by Budhram, who subjected her to sexual exploitation,” Ms Pandey told this newspaper.
One day, the self-styled commander of Jan Hita Kranti, a splinter group of PLFI, Mangal Nagesia raided the Budhram’s camp and took her with him.
She was subjected to sexual exploitation by Dinesh, close associate of Mangal and then by Mangal himself.
She fell into the hand of Khudi Munda, a Maoist commander active in Chhattisgarh-Jharkhand border, in October last year when the latter killed Mangal in an ambush.
“I had a dream of pursuing studies. I never let the dream die during my insurgency days,” she was quoted as saying by Ms Pandey.
“She is currently under psychological counselling. Steps are being taken for her rehabilitation,” the police officer told this newspaper.
