Orchestra Group Raids: 10 Girls Rescued in Bihar, 2 from Jharkhand's Garwah District

Ranchi: Two of the 10 girls, including nine minors, who were rescued from different orchestra groups during raids in various places of Saran district in Bihar, are from Garwah district of Jharkhand, police said on Sunday.According to the police, victims were recruited by the orchestra groups to stage dances but were forced to perform obscene and immoral acts. With their rescue, the process of returning them to their parents has begun. Police arrested two people and detained a minor in connection with the incident.Notably, acting on the direction of the member of the National Human Rights Commission (NHRC), Priyank Kanungo, a police team raided the orchestra groups at Maddhour, Maker, Janta Bazaar, Sahjitpur, Baniapur and Masrak in Saran district on Saturday to rescue the girls belonging to Bihar, West Bengal, Jharkhand, Uttar Pradesh and Nepal. The victims from Garwah were rescued from the Janta Bazaar police station area.It may be noted here that Kanungo wrote a letter to Saran SP Kumar Ashish last Wednesday to intervene and rescue the girls, and asked him to produce the girls before the child welfare committees (CWCs) concerned without delay.The director of the Mission Mukti Foundation, Virendra Kumar Singh, who played a significant role in gathering information about the victims, said, “All the minors have been produced before the CWC through video-conferencing. The Jharkhand govt has been informed about the incident, and the restoration process to their parents will be carried out. The victims are at a shelter home at present.”Singh said Saran police rescued 289 minor girls from exploitation so far, and many of them were found to be from Jharkhand.