This story is from November 22, 2018

Jharkhand girl believed to have been murdered in Delhi returns home

Jharkhand girl believed to have been murdered in Delhi returns home
NEW DELHI: A 16-year-old girl from Ranchi in Jharkhand, believed by Delhi Police to have been murdered in the city in May, returned home alive to her family on Monday. “We visited her and learnt that she had been taken to Chandigarh by a trafficker in July last year and had been working as a domestic help in that city and then in Noida since,” said Vikas Kumar, officer in-charge of the Lapung police station in Ranchi.

Confirming the developments, Seju P Kuruvilla, DCP (Outer), said Delhi Police had been informed by Jharkhand Police that the girl in question was alive and currently with her family in Ranchi. Now that the girl presumed dead has been found alive, there are questions about the identity of the body found in May.
“We will ask for the custody of Manjeet Kerketta, Gauri and Sahu, the three accused to investigate this new development,” said DCP Kuruvilla, adding that he suspects the trio misled police about their victim. Rajendra Singh Sagar, additional DCP-I (Outer), added, “The identity of the girl may be confused, but a heinous crime did take place and, according to the traffickers, the girl was from Jharkhand.”
On May 4, the cops had discovered the body of a girl chopped into several pieces in a drain in Nihal Vihar in west Delhi’s Mundka. Delhi Police had brought the presumed victim’s elder brother to the capital from Jharkhand and he had identified the maimed body as that of his sister.
The cops claimed to have solved the case with the arrest of Kerketta, owner of a placement agency, on May 17. His aides Gauri and Sahu were also arrested, and police were pursuing a fourth person, Rakesh. The trio are currently lodged in Tihar jail.
In her statement to Jharkhand Police, the teenager said she and another girl from Bedo were lured by promises of a well-paying job on July 30 last year. She was employed as a domestic help in Chandigarh, where she was regularly beaten up and remained unpaid. She managed to escape to Noida, where she came in contact with other placement agents and worked for a few months there.

“She told us that she saw the news about her death on TV and informed her employers, but they concealed the information,” Kumar said. The girl ran away from Noida too and was spotted by police, who handed her over to an NGO, which arranged for her return home. Meanwhile, the Lapung police said the girl’s family did not want to lodge any complaint with the cops.
“They said they were happy to get their daughter back and they do not want to get into legal hassles,” OC Kumar said. He, however, feared that the dead girl might be the one who had accompanied the teenager to Delhi. “We will question the girl once she is okay and seek information that might be useful for identifying the dead girl,” said Kumar. Delhi Police is scanning the records of girls that Kerketta brought to Delhi during that period to see if someone is missing
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