Horror in Bihar: Over 100 girls held hostage in Muzaffarpur, raped and beaten with belts; nine charged (watch video)

Muzaffarpur, June 17: In a shocking development from Bihar’s Muzaffarpur, over 100 young girls were allegedly held captive in Ahiyarpur area after being promised lucrative job offers. The women were repeatedly raped and beaten with belts by a group of nine people. The allegations came to light after a video of one of the victims went viral on social media. Police have arrested all nine accused in the case.

The victim, who narrated her ordeal in the video, claimed that she was lured by Tilak Singh, an employee of a DVR company, through Facebook. Singh offered her a well-paying job and she paid a training fee of Rs 20,000. However, when she took up the job, she was locked in a room with many other girls in Muzaffarpur. Tilak Singh and the company’s managing director Manish Sinha asked her to recruit 50 more girls for the company and promised her a salary hike to Rs 50,000. When she failed to do so, she was physically abused.

Young girls raped in Bihar

The victim further alleged that Tilak Singh forced her into a physical relationship and promised her marriage. After police raids in Muzaffarpur, she was taken to Hajipur where Singh forcibly married her and kept her captive. When she insisted on returning home, Manish Sinha and his accomplices deleted the data from her phone in Patna before sending her back to Muzaffarpur.

Though the victim had reported the incident to the police, she was allegedly abducted by the accused from her hometown and taken to Gorakhpur and then back to Muzaffarpur, where she managed to escape and file a complaint in court.

Deputy SP Vinita Sinha said, “We have recorded the statement of the complainant as well as several other victims. The complaint reveals that the accused first contacted her through social media in June 2022 and asked her to come to Muzaffarpur to get a good job.”

“When she came to Muzaffarpur, she was initially kept in a room. Several other young girls were also there. Later, they were taken to an unknown location and all of them were busy calling young women and offering them lucrative jobs in their fake company,” the official said.

The police have launched an investigation into this case.

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