KATHMANDU: Seventeen-year-old Shikha Pariyar (name changed), recently rescued from Mona Herbal Massage Parlour in Thamel, has made an astonishing disclosure that she was horrendously assaulted by her clients, many of whom police personnel, from

Sorahkhutte.

Like a prisoner, Pariyar was locked in a room fenced by a series of chain-gates and iron-shutters. The owner of the parlour would then come in and give her the drugs.

As she was lulled to sleep due to the impact of the drug, her clients would start assaulting her. She was rescued five months ago by Maiti Nepal.

The teenager, who came from Hetauda one-and-a-half years ago, to earn her livelihood, narrated how brutish her clients were, many of them police, who tortured her physically and mentally. “I have lost all my faith on those police personnel who tortured me more than any other men,” she lamented.

Pariyar had requested many of her clients to rescue her from the disgraceful life she was forced upon in the parlour, but nobody would listen to her. Pariyar disclosed that the massage

parlour business thrived as police protected it, in return for a handsome amount of money.

Despite her tender age, Pariyar had to earn for 12 members of her family.

She recalled how she was lured by Sabina Lama, who promised to pay her Rs 2,500 a month for a household work, and later ditched

her in the parlour.

“I was brought to Kathmandu by Sanju Lama, sister of Sabina Lama of Hetauda promising a household job,” Pariyar told mediapersons. Pariyar’s elder brother is a mental patient and her father a tailor in Hetauda.

Pariyar is not an isolated case of a typical village girl who is undergoing a hellish torture in Kathmandu. Shika, another teenager said, “The owner of the parlour gave us drugs and made unconscious. After that, we were abused physically.”

“I came to Kathmandu with my own mother thinking that I get a better job, but ended up in the same parlour,” Ramila Pariyar(name changed) recounted. Ramila said she was also brought to Kathmandu by Sanju Lama.

First, we we assigned household tasks for about a month, then we were sent to the massage parlour, said Ramila. “We remained locked to the room confined on all sides by many channel gates so that we could not escape from it, or cry for help as no one would hear,” claimed Ramila.

Cruelty knows no bounds on the lives two other teenaged girls, who had recently been rescued by Maiti Nepal. They were narrating heart rending stories to mediapersons, today. Meanwhile, Sumitra Shrestha, psycho-socio counsellor at Maiti Nepal, said the girls had to entertain more than 20 clients per day in the parlour.

Nawa Raj Silwal, SP of Metropolitan Police Range Kathmandu said the police have launched a for Sabina and Sanju Lama, the main culprits who sold off the girls to the massage parlour.