A local court of Mizoram ordered that eight Rohingya girls who were rescued by the Mizoram Police from Dungtlang village in Champhai district should be sent to a protection home in Aizawl.
The court onFriday instructed the police and the Child Welfare Committee (CWC) in thedistrict to choose a women protection home which would be able to accommodatethe Rohingya girls reported to be victims of human trafficking. Police saidthat the girls were allegedly abducted from a Rohingya refugee camp inBangladesh and brought to Mizoram to be sent to Myanmar.
The girlswere rescued on Monday last from Dungtkang village in Mizoram and policeinformed that the girls were being taken to Myanmar from Bangladesh via India.It was in April last that eight Rohingya women who were trying to enter Mizoramwithout any travel documents were detained by the state police at theMizoram-Assam border.
The womenwhile interrogated by police said that some people abducted them from a marketin Bangladesh on April 19 and brought them to Silchar in Assam.
