Latest News | UP: 4 Held for Kidnapping Minor Girls, Forcing Them into Prostitution

Mathura (UP), Oct 12 (PTI) Four members of a gang were arrested here for allegedly kidnapping minor girls and forcing them into prostitution, police said on Thursday.

Two minor girls have also been rescued by the police, they said.

Also Read | Madhya Pradesh Assembly Election 2023: From Shivraj Singh Chouhan to Narottam Mishra, List of Key Candidates of BJP and Their Constituencies.

Senior Superintendent of Police Shailesh Kumar Pandey said Kosikalan area police, which have been working on a kidnapping case of a 16-year-old girl for the last several days, came to know that a girl of similar description was seen at a dhaba located on the Delhi-Agra National Highway.

A police team conducted a raid at the dhaba on Wednesday and freed the abducted girl along with another 17-year-old girl belonging to West Bengal, he said

Also Read | What Is Hamas? What Does Hamas Want? Know All About Pro-Palestine Group That Rules Gaza Strip and Has Fought Several Rounds of War With Israel.

Four people, including the dhaba owner Satveer, were arrested in connection with the case, the SSP said.

A case has been registered against all accused. Efforts were also on to gather information about the criminal history of those arrested, he said.

Two mobile phones, Rs 14,000 cash, liquor bottles, condoms and other objects have been recovered from the possession of the accused, SSP Pandey said.

(The above story is verified and authored by Press Trust of India (PTI) staff. PTI, India’s premier news agency, employs more than 400 journalists and 500 stringers to cover almost every district and small town in India.. The views appearing in the above post do not reflect the opinions of LatestLY)