<p>The Hubli police have rescued a 14-year-old girl from the city from being married off to an aged person in Gujarat. This comes close on the heels of the Kalaghatagi police unearthing a women’s trafficking racket.<br /><br /></p>.<p>According to police, the girl from Jagadish Nagar in the city was about to leave for Gujarat to get married to a well-off aged businessman. But the police intervened and rescued the girl. Now, she is housed at the juvenile home at Ghantikeri in the city. Though the incident took place a week ago, it has come to light only now.<br /><br />The girl, who lost her mother some years ago, was living with her alcoholic father. Being the sole bread-earner at her house, she was working at a brick kiln at Gokul village near Hubli.<br />Recently, an agent from Jamakhandi in Bagalkot district had paid Rs 30,000 to her father. <br /><br />After getting the money, her father had agreed to send his daughter to Gujarat to get married to the businessman.<br /><br />Efforts to marry off the girl came to light when she told the owner of the brick kiln where she was employed that she was not coming for work, henceforth. <br />Kiln owner’s help<br /><br />The kiln owner, while gathering details about her marriage, came to know that the man who was marrying her was aged and she was made a scapegoat for the businessman’s lust. He informed the Gokul police about the matter.<br /><br />The police swung into action and took the girl’s father Ramachandra Ganiga and agent Javed Mulla into custody, while the girl has been sent to a juvenile home here. <br /><br /></p>
<p>The Hubli police have rescued a 14-year-old girl from the city from being married off to an aged person in Gujarat. This comes close on the heels of the Kalaghatagi police unearthing a women’s trafficking racket.<br /><br /></p>.<p>According to police, the girl from Jagadish Nagar in the city was about to leave for Gujarat to get married to a well-off aged businessman. But the police intervened and rescued the girl. Now, she is housed at the juvenile home at Ghantikeri in the city. Though the incident took place a week ago, it has come to light only now.<br /><br />The girl, who lost her mother some years ago, was living with her alcoholic father. Being the sole bread-earner at her house, she was working at a brick kiln at Gokul village near Hubli.<br />Recently, an agent from Jamakhandi in Bagalkot district had paid Rs 30,000 to her father. <br /><br />After getting the money, her father had agreed to send his daughter to Gujarat to get married to the businessman.<br /><br />Efforts to marry off the girl came to light when she told the owner of the brick kiln where she was employed that she was not coming for work, henceforth. <br />Kiln owner’s help<br /><br />The kiln owner, while gathering details about her marriage, came to know that the man who was marrying her was aged and she was made a scapegoat for the businessman’s lust. He informed the Gokul police about the matter.<br /><br />The police swung into action and took the girl’s father Ramachandra Ganiga and agent Javed Mulla into custody, while the girl has been sent to a juvenile home here. <br /><br /></p>
