Delhi has made an impression of becoming the rape capital of the country, has again, lived up to its ugly reputation. A 15-year-old girl had left her house to escape forced marriage ended up at Hazrat Nizamuddin station in Delhi in October 2016, only to be spotted by an alleged human trafficker Armaan and be raped for many days, confined with his live-in partner.

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The heinous act did not end there as the girl has alleged she was sold twice and was gang raped by three men for as long as 4 months, after being subjected to mental and physical torture. The girl was reportedly kept captive in Delhi, Haryana, Rajasthan and Madhya Pradesh.

She was finally rescued by Border Security Force (BSF) jawan with the help of Delhi police. The men who subjected her to the sexual torture were arrested from Delhi on February 3. The couple was caught on April 11 at Delhi’s Sarai Kale Khan.

The girl was offered a job and shelter by the alleged trafficker Armaan and the girl followed the trap and stayed confined in a room with Armaan and his live in partner Haseena. The girl was raped for 15 days by the trafficker, and later sold for Rs. 70,000 to a man named Pappu Yadav.

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Yadav forced her to his village at Sawai Madhopur, Rajasthan, raped her for several days and forcefully married her after taking her to Ujjain. She was later taken to Haryana by Yadav and kept for a month, in a confined rented room where she was sexually and mentally assaulted.

The girl escaped Yadav on January 30, 2017, but met Haseena again at Hazrat Nizamuddin railway station. Haseena apologised and offered her a drink which was spiked, and later sold her for Rs. 2,000 to Mohammad Afroz.

Afroz and his friend Mohammad Zakir gang raped her for two days behind platform no. 1 of Hazrat Nizamuddin station. The girl escaped again on February 1, only to be caught and sold for the third time by the couple. While being dragged to Haseena’s room, a BSF jawan spotted her and informed the police who rescued her.

The girl was later produced before the Child Welfare Committee (CWC), has refused to go back home in at Bilaspur in Chhattisgarh as she will be forced into marriage to a man double her age. She is staying in a children’s home.