The main focus of EMPOWER PEOPLE lies on awareness raising and sensitization trainings for law enforcement agencies. The organization is also offering direct victim support and assistance to women vulnerable to human trafficking and domestic violence.Rourkela: Police today claimed to have busted a woman trafficking racket by rescuing 10 minor girls and arresting four persons, including two women, at Bhasma in Sundargarh district, about 120 km from here.
The Sub-Divisional Police Officer (SDPO), Sundargarh Sadar, Suresh Mishra said the girls in the age group of 15-17 years from Karamdih, Chalandmunda and Purenbuda villages of the district were travelling with four middlemen and women in a jeep to Jharsuguda to board a train to New Delhi.
The girls during the interrogation said they were promised a job in Delhi with salary of Rs 5,000 per month.
The girls were later handed over to their families.
All four were produced before a court at Sundargarh which remanded them to police custody.
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