India, Nov. 2 -- The Anti-Human Trafficking Unit (AHTU) of Navi Mumbai Police stormed a Taloja flat on October 30, rescuing a 10-year-old girl from the clutches of a 70-year-old London-based NRI who had allegedly been sexually abusing her for two years, with her own mother as the facilitator.

The accused, Farooq Allauddin Shaikh, a retired Non-Resident Indian settled in the UK, was arrested alongside the child's mother, a domestic helper from Kopargaon in Kharghar. Police officers said the woman sold her daughter's innocence for Rs.2.5 lakh in cash and monthly ration supplies, knowingly sending the minor girl to Shaikh's flat repeatedly in exchange for financial favours.

"Despite full knowledge that the victim was a minor, the accused e...