Five held for kindnapping, castrating youth

 A Selvaraj, TNN Apr 4, 2009, 04.01am IST

CHENNAI: When 16-year-old Vinoth, a class 9 dropout, disappeared from his house in Kovalam in 2006, his parents searched long and hard, in vain. In March 2009, he surfaced as Trisha,' a transgender. His parents Nagooran, a daily labourer, and Rani then approached two NGOs and through them the Tamil Nadu State Commission for Women. Their petition was then forwarded to the police and special teams were formed.
On Friday, five persons, including three transgenders, were arrested for kidnapping Vinoth, castrating him and forcing him into sex trade. The five S Arasu alias Arasi (25) of Kovalam, S Subbu alias Subakaran of Annai Sathya Nagar in Kasimedu and transgenders D Radha alias Raja (52), S Shanthi (32) of Kellys and S Kuttima (31) of Kallarai were later remanded in judicial custody.

"When he turned up at our house on March 11, my mother was shocked to see Vinoth wearing women's clothes, lipstick and nail-polish. He did not utter a word for a whole day," Rani said in her petition.

According to the police, Vinoth, after dropping out of school, went back to his parents in Kovalam but didn't want to be a burden on them. He approached soothsayer Arasu, said to be an MSM (men who have sex with men). The latter allegedly had sex with him. Vinoth left his house on July 18, 2006.

The petition said Arasu took Vinoth to Kasimedu and left him at Subbu alias Suba's house. A day later, Vinoth was taken to transgender Radha's house near the old central prison. Radha confined him there for more than a month and forced him to wear women's clothes. "Radha promised my son a job in Pune and sold him to another transgender Angalamma. Later, my son was given to Subalakshmi who forced Vinoth into begging. His signature was taken and he was taken to a hospital in Cuddapah in Andhra Pradesh where an operation' was performed to turn him into an eunuch. He was then forced into prostitution. Finally, he managed to flee and return to Chennai on March 11," said Radha.

The five accused were booked under Sections 3 (1), 4 (1), 5 (1) and 6 of the Immoral Trafficking Prevention Act and Sections 363 (A), 372, 373, 346, 326 of the Indian Penal Code read with Section 120 (B) of IPC.

On Friday, while the arrested were being taken to a magistrate's court in Egmore some of their relatives and friends stage a road roko'. The anchor of a private TV channel who came to cover the incident was gheraoed by a group of lawyers and transgenders.

source: http://articles.timesofindia.indiatimes.com/2009-04-04/chennai/28052701_1_transgender-kovalam-rani

12-yr-old castrated, forced to be part of eunuch group

Chetan Chauhan, Hindustan Times   New Delhi, March 05, 2013

First Published: 00:49 IST(5/3/2013) | Last Updated: 02:08 IST(5/3/2013)

When their missing son came back home after six months, his family was unable to decide whether to celebrate his return or grieve his plight. Their son Apurva Singh (name changed) was a victim of forced castration, carried out by a group of eunuchs.
Six months ago, when the 12-year-old did not show up long after school hours, his worker parents approached the police who failed to locate him. Apurva became yet another name in their list of 5,540 children, who went missing last year.
The Singh family had lost all hope of finding their son, until last week when Apurva showed up at their doorstep. He was their son, but the child inside him was gone. “He was much more mature,” recalled a neighbour.
He had been lured by a person with the offer of sweets. That person had been friendly with him for some days. An unsuspecting Apurva ate the sweets he offered and fainted. When he woke up, he found himself on a dirty cot in a small dingy room.  
Apurva was surrounded by a group of eunuchs, who offered him good food and new clothes and said they were now his family. He was kept there for the next few days. The eunuchs began teaching him all about his new life — of being a eunuch.
Almost two months later, the boy said he was given a tablet that made him unconscious. He was apparently castrated in his sleep and he woke up with pain in his private parts. “The eunuchs told me that the pain will subside soon and gave me medicines,” Apurva recalled.
The wounds healed in a month after which he was made a part of a group of eunuchs, who would collect money at marriage venues and the homes of newborns. He got his share of money every day. Confident that he will return on his own, Apurva was finally allowed to visit his family.  
Rakesh Senger of Bachpan Bachao Andolan, a child rights group, said “Nearly seven children go missing from Delhi every day.” He said cases like Apurva’s were not unusual in Delhi, but their number was not very high.
A similar case was reported in 2008 from Jahangirpuri in northwest Delhi.

source: http://www.hindustantimes.com/India-news/NewDelhi/12-yr-old-castrated-forced-to-be-part-of-eunuch-group/Article1-1021176.aspx

Boy forced to change sex for flesh trade in Bangalore

Bengaluru, Nov 10: March 23, 2008, a IX standard boy Chandrashekar, a resident of Dasarahalli goes missing. Today the same boy Chandrashekar has been rechristened as Shilpa and is under the safe custody of the police. Till now the police were groping in dark to investigate cases relating to child missing or kidnaps. With the rescue of this missing boy the police have got a new investigation angle to detect cases of the missing that is to question eunuchs. The Samigehalli police in the Bangalore North East police jurisdiction have rescued Chandrashekar and have arrested two eunuchs for allegedly kidnapping him.  The euncuhs arrested are identified as Basavaraj alias Mangala (26), resident of Nelamangala and Vedu alias Baby (20), native of Tumkur.
The eunuchs have revealed that a team of eunuchs specailsed in kidnapping school children had kidnapped Chandrashekar near Government High School in Dasarahalli based on their behest. Later the boy was taken to Kadapa in Andhra Pradesh and was subjected to sex change operation. Initially the boy was induced with a hormon injection and once again the boy was taken to Kadapa and was subjected for a final sex change operation and was rechristened as Shilpa.
Meanwhile Venkatappa, father of the victim had filed a complaint with the police. But the police were unable to find the boy. On Friday the Sampigehalli police found the victim standing under the Hebbal fly-over and luring customers for flesh trade.
The police who were tipped-of about the flesh trade took Chandrashekar  to their custody and later learnt about the tragic incident. Based on the statements of Chandrashekar alias Shilpa the police arrested the two eunuchs and are questioning them. The two eunuchs have revealed several names of their gang members who are  absconding. The Sampigehalli police is further investigating.

source: http://news.oneindia.in/2008/11/10/boy-forced-change-sex-flesh-trade-bangalore.html;

Teen undergoes forced sex change surgery by eunuchs

Lawrence Milton, TNN Nov 20, 2008, 11.29am IST

MYSORE/BANGALORE: This is a story of a teenager who was forced to undergo a sex change surgery and face a traumatic life as a girl.
Manju, (19), a native of Mysore taluk, turned a girl in a few months and wears feminine clothing. Like other children, he had dreams of pursuing higher education and leading a normal life, but his fate took a turn for the worse after an encounter with two eunuchs in Mysore city, about six months ago, when he came for admission into a PU college.

The eunuchs pounced upon him that afternoon and bundled him into a four-wheeler on Sayyaji Rao Road, before being taken to Mumbai via Chennai.
He did not know what had happened to him for nearly three months after his abduction as he was sedated continuously without being allowed to regain consciousness. Later, he realized to his shock that a forced surgery had been performed on his genitals.
"I was served only two chapattis and coffee every day. But, when I gained conscious, I was shocked to see that my genitals had been amputated," he recalls, adding that the trauma he underwent was unimaginable. "I writhed in pain for many days."
Manju managed to escape from the clutches of the "hijras " in Mumbai only five days ago and reached Mysore taluk. But the incident came to light only on Sunday, after the district police visited his house to pursue the case of "missing person" his parents had filed in July, two months after he went missing.
Manju, now Manjula, said: "It was on May 6, when I was kidnapped by a gang of six 'hijras' from Sayyaji Rao Road. I was intercepted by two of them when I was visiting a college to enquire about admissions to first PU.
"They took me to a house in Mysore and later shifted me to Chennai the same night. Before that, a group of hijras served me rice, probably mixed with some sedatives. But when I regained conscious I was handed over to them in Chennai, who later shifted me to Mumbai few days later."
A tearful Manju recounted how he was put to sleep for three months inside a closed room. "At that time, I was not aware about the surgery. They also administered hormonal injections on my chest to develop breasts. Later, after a few weeks, I was let out along with a group of hijras to beg on the streets of Mumbai.
In the meantime, I befriended a Marwari from Karnataka during my visit to the shops there. On 12 November, I escaped from them on pretext of washing hands after having a lunch at a hotel. The Marwari helped me to reach Bangalore and later funded to go his village," said Manju.
According to the police, they came to know of it only after a visit to his house to check whether "the missing boy" had reached home or not.
The police said they would crack down on eunuchs in the city, so that it may lead them to solve some more cases of missing children.

source: http://articles.timesofindia.indiatimes.com/2008-11-20/bangalore/27896444_1_mysore-eunuchs-hijras;