According to a report submitted to the Child Welfare Committee (CWC), Lajpat Nagar, by the children’s home where she has been living, the teenaged girl had been a victim of prostitution from the time she went missing from her home in June 2011. She also refused to go home with her father. She said she did not give a true account earlier “because of fear and shame”.

For now, the CWC has directed that she continue to stay at the children’s home.

According to the report submitted by a social worker from the home, the girl said Rajkumar alias Mohammad Dilshad — the man who apparently handed her the infant before disappearing — was part of an elaborate ring who “lured” her into prostitution.

The girl stated that Dilshad who was a taxi driver — his photograph was released by the police on Monday — used to drop her at “different places to entertain customers”.

“The child has been subjected to sexual abuse by several persons. She has been used for commercial sexual exploitation...” stated the CWC order based on the report.

Findings of the report accessed by Newsline state that the girl left home and went to a woman’s house near Tughlaqabad Fort. She was kept there for three days where the woman’s husband raped her repeatedly to “break her” when she refused sex work, the report stated.

“She was a distraught girl, tired of her father’s beatings and scolding. She confided in a few women in her neighbourhood who were in touch with... and they lured her by offering her freedom from her father’s physical abuse,” an official from CWC said.

She was later taken to Etah in UP where “clients would frequently visit and abuse her”. In August 2011, she was sent to Munirka on a “one-week contract”. After this, she was taken to different places by Dilshad, the report stated.

The CWC directed the police to register cases against all those named by the girl. She will have to undergo a medical examination and a pregnancy test.

The CWC also ordered police to register a case against the girl’s father — he attended the CWC hearing — for cruelty and abuse.

The girl told the counsellors that her father had been booked for the murder of a relative. Confirming this, he told the CWC that a case was registered at the Kalkaji police station, and he was currently out on bail.

Meanwhile, police have sent teams to UP and Mumbai in search of Dilshad. Police are also looking for Munni and want to verify claims that she is the injured infant’s biological mother.

Police officers, who did not wish to be named, conceded that the teenaged girl may have been lured by Dilshad with the “promise of a good life”.