A shocking case of human trafficking and sexual exploitation has come to light with the rescue of a 12-year-old Bangladeshi girl from a prostitution ring. The girl, a seventh-grade student, had run away from her home country and a Bangladeshi woman had brought the girl to Kolkata.  As per reports, she was first taken to Kolkata by a Bangladeshi woman and then flown to Mumbai by another sex trafficker. In Mumbai, she was handed over to Mohammad Khalid Abdul Bapari, a 33-year-old Bangladeshi national, who allegedly kept her in Navi Mumbai where she was first raped. When she resisted, she was reportedly beaten and burned.Later she was moved to Nadiad, Gujarat, where she was allegedly handed over to human traffickers Preetiben Mohida (37) and Niket Patel (35). 

According to police, she was forced into prostitution and allegedly raped by at least 200 men in just three months in Gujarat. The traffickers reportedly charged clients between ₹5,000 and ₹15,000, but the girl received only ₹500 from each transaction. She was held with false promises of being sent back home.