SURAT, MAY 20: A woman travelling from Mumbai to Delhi in a train was drugged, kidnapped and confined for two days in Chakla Bazaar here, before she managed to escape and report the matter to the police on Thursday. The Chowk Bazaar police have arrested two women in this connection until evening.One Asha Ashok Thakore (20), after escaping from the custody of pimps operating at Chakla Bazaar, reached the Chowk Bazaar police station today morning and recalled her ordeal over the past two days, naming five women as accused.
According to information, Thakore, a resident of Ruhani Jogalpuri, Old Delhi and presently working as an ayah at Mother Teresa's Clinic at Mira Desai Road, Mumbai, boarded a Delhi bound train on Tuesday morning. It was in the same compartment that she struck a conversation with Sapna Rambahadur Kshatriya, Kiran Syambahadur Kshatriya and three other unidentified women.
According to the complainant, the women offered her sweets after which she fell unconscious and later foundherself in a room at Chakla Bazaar in the afternoon. According to Thakore's version, she was beaten up on a number of occasions on Tuesday and Wednesday in Sapna's house. She was also drugged every time she protested and rendered unconscious.
The complainant alleged that she was pressurised to service clients in the two days of confinement by the accused who also took away her suitcase containing Rs 7,500 in cash, a gold chain, a gold ring and other valuables.
The complainant further told the police that three pimps escorted her at around three am on Thursday morning to the city railway station, with an intention to take her away to another place. But she, however, gave them a slip, boarded an autorickshaw and reached the Chowk Bazaar police station, where she filed a complaint.
Still in a dazed state, Asha has been temporarily sent to the Naari Sanrakshan Gruha, from where she will be escorted to her house in Delhi, the Chowk Bazaar police said.
The police then arrested Sapna Kshatriya and KiranKshatriya, both reportedly pimps operating at Chakla Bazaar. A case of poisoning, wrongfully confining, threatening to kill a person and theft has been registered against five women.
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