Police in Bihar have arrested a Muslim villager for allegedly selling his wives shortly after entering into formal wedlock in a bid to make fast bucks.
As per reports, the man trafficked his 11 wives in the past 12 years after staying with them with him for hardly three to four months.
Mohammad Kamal, a 36-year-old resident of Kahalgaon in eastern Bihar’s Bhagalpur district, would entice young women under the guise of marriage and then quickly sell them to brothels/people involved in sex trade. He would normally sell them in the Aligarh area of Uttar Pradesh, according to the police.
But his game ended on Tuesday when one of his wives Jilebia Khatoon fled from the clutches of a sex trafficker in Aligarh and reached her home to confront the accused who was looking for another prey.
“Soon after marriage, he took me to Aligarh on the pretext of getting a job there but sold me to a man. Here, I came to know he had done this many times in the past. Somehow, I fled from his clutches and reached my home in Bhagalpur. I knew he will be there looking for another prey,” 25-year-old Jilebia told the local media today.
According to her, she continued secretly searching for the man and on Tuesday morning, she finally found him at the Kahalgaon railway station premises with the help of local villagers.
Soon after that, the accused was taken to her village where the residents gave him a sound beating. At the village court which was held later, the accused confessed to selling all his 11 wives after marriage after which he was handed over to the local police which sent him to jail.
According to the accused, he sold his wives for money ranging between Rs30,000 to Rs40,000. Jilebia too was sold for Rs40,000 to a man in Aligarh identified as Dheeraj Kumar but luckily she is a free bird now, thanks to her brave act. The police are investigating the case.
