Delhi: Man on the run for 8 years arrested in rape, trafficking cases
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A man wanted in two rape cases and alleged trafficking of minor girls was nabbed by Delhi Police after eight years. The accused was involved in trafficking of minor girls through a placement agency.
Delhi Police arrested a 38-year-old criminal wanted in two cases of rape and alleged trafficking of minor girls for eight years. The accused, identified as Brahma Dev Chaudhary, a resident of Surya Vihar, Faridabad, Haryana, was arrested by the Special Staff of North-West police. Chaudhary was also involved in forceful employment of minor girls to work as house helpers via a placement agency, police said.
The criminal was on the run to evade investigation in two unsolved cases from 2014 and 15 and was arrested on June 1, 2022. Subhash Nagar police received a complaint about the trafficking of a 13-year-old minor girl. The complaint stated that the girl belonged to a poor family in Assam and was trafficked by a person from Assam to Delhi on the pretext of a job.
The girl, who worked a domestic help in Kothi for a week, was returned to the office of Placement agency in Delho's Shakurpur where the accused raped her. She was again employed in a Kothi at Pitampura, where she worked for a couple of days.
When the victim escaped from the Kothi, a complaint was filed with the police.
Another case was registered in which a 15-year-old minor girl alleged that she was trafficked by the accused Chaudhary from Assam to Delhi. He kept her in a house in Shakurpur, Delhi, where she was raped by him and was forcefully employed for working as a house help at various locations in Delhi. She managed to escape from a house in Greater Kailash, Delhi, where she was last employed and reached the police station for a complaint.
Upon receiving the complaints, police launched an investigation to arrest the accused and non-bailable warrants were issued against him. Raids were conducted at his possible hide-outs in Delhi, NCR and Bihar but he managed to escape. The process of proclamation against him was completed and, subsequently, he was declared a proclaimed offender in both cases.
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