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Bhubaneswar. Dec 29: The police are still looking for the exact house where a minor girl of Saliagahi was confined after abduction and gangraped for over seven days.
Police commissioner RP Sharma told Orissa POST the police were trying to locate the house and a woman named Tuni Bhauja, the victim’s neighbour who allegedly kidnapped the girl in a bid to push her into flesh trade.
Sharma said the victim could not identify the house where she was detained as Tuni is currently absconding. “All efforts are being made to nab Tuni,” he said.
The victim’s family is also making efforts to trace the accused.
Police sources said Tuni could have been arrested earliler, had the victim’s relatives lodged a complaint with the police soon after her disappearance December 19.
“The family filed a complaint December 28, when most of the evidences were eliminated,” said the sources.
According to the complaint lodged with Mahila police station here, the girl was a resident of Nirankari Nagar from where she had been taken to a house in Khandagiri on the pretext of shopping by Tuni, her neighbor. She was allegedly locked up in a dingy room where she realised that Tuni wanted to push her into flesh trade.
Her ordeal of sexual assault started the same night when an elderly man came and raped her. The routine continued for a week with each day a new client raping her. She finally managed to free herself Sunday. She said, two other girls who stayed in the house were also engaged in prostitution.
She first went to a shop in the locality from where she called the police control room. A PCR van arrived and picked up the girl and took her to her home in Salia Sahi.
After she narrated her horryfying ordeal to her parents, they contacted the Orissa Nari Sachetanata Mancha, a women’s outfit which, in turn, lodged an FIR with Mahila police station.