This One Tweet Helped The Indian Railway Ministry Save A 19-Year-Old From Human Traffickers

You did good, guys. You did good.

On January 5, a young woman who was travelling with two older men on a train bound from Hyderabad to New Delhi, handed this letter to a co-passenger.

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Written in Hindi, the letter stated that the woman was forcibly being taken to New Delhi by the two men. She also said that she was an orphan, and a student of class 10.

Divyansh Khunteta, a relative of the co-passenger's, tweeted an image of the letter to @RailMinIndia, the official handle of India's Railway Ministry.

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Within minutes, the Ministry had responded to Khunteta's tweet, asking for further details about the passengers.

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Less than an hour after Khunteta's tweet, they tweeted an update assuring disciplinary action at the next station the train was halting at.

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Thanks to Khunteta's tweet and the Ministry's timely response, 19-year-old Radha Lohar was rescued from her perpretators by the Railway Protection Force.

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While the perpetrators, Kamruddin Ansari and Prem Kanti Tirkey, were detained, the Railway Ministry said that Lohar would be taken under the protective custody of Pratham, an NGO.

You did good, guys. You did good.

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Read the full report by South Central Railway here.