PUBLISHED IN THE HINDU A 16-year-old girl, a native of West Bengal, was rescued from Sector 47 here on Saturday in a joint operation by the local police, the West Bengal Police, and anti-trafficking organisation Shakti Vahini. The rescue team laid a trap and arrested accused Arvind after a day-long...
Sunday, 31 August 2014 | Saugar Sengupta | Kolkata | in Sunday Pioneer Life changed for Rakhi (name changed) when she was barely one. Her father sold her off to a Bongaon household across the border when she could barely walk. It was in 1996. Md Ghira a hobo (migratory...
Sunday, 31 August 2014 | Deebashree Mohanty | in Sunday Pioneer Rani Mukherji starrer Mardaani focusses on an issue that has been plaguing the country for over a decade now. As many as 67,000 children went missing in between 2013-2014 and it is believed that more than 45 percent were...
BY RASHMI DROLIA IN TIMES OF INDIA RAIPUR: More than 100 police inspectors of 27 districts of state attended a training programme for sensitization on human trafficking organized by state police in collaboration with Shakti Vahini, a Delhi-based NGO. Chhattisgarh’s tribal district being a major hub of human trafficking and...
PUBLISHED IN THE TELEGRAPH Aug. 26: A Delhi-based NGO is organising programmes across schools in north Bengal in collaboration with district administrations to sensitise adolescents to human trafficking which is rampant in the region, especially in the tea garden belt. Shakti Vahini has already covered 300 government schools in the...
BY SAURAV ROY IN THE HINDUSTAN TIMES Parents of the 14-year-old girl from a Jharkhand village who was trafficked, raped in Delhi and dumped in Gurgaon said she went to school about a month ago and did not return. Her parents said they did not approach the police at that...
BY SAURAV ROY IN THE HINDUSTAN TIMES Trafficking gangs hang around schools to lure girls with sweets and gifts to the national capital. This shocking revelation has been made by several girls who had gone missing and had been rescued by the Jharkhand police from Delhi recently. A 14 year-old...
BY SAURAV ROY- PUBLISHED IN THE HINDUSTAN TIMES A 14-year-old girl, who was allegedly trafficked from a Jharkhand village to Delhi in order to work as a domestic help, was sexually assaulted by an auto driver. The girl was abandoned near MG Road metro station in Gurgaon on Sunday. The...
PUBLISHED IN THE TIMES OF INDIA New Delhi: On the eve of India’s 68th Independence Day, a mother and daughter separated for almost one year took a step closer to reunion. The mother’s desperate search for her missing daughter brought to the capital from Jharkhand on the spurious promise of...
PUBLISHED IN THE HINDU The girl was forced to do various household chores during the day. When Sukhbir tried to force himself on her at night, she raised an alarm and tried to run away. A minor girl, who managed to escape from the clutches of her 45-year-old trafficker in...
PUBLISHED IN THE STATESMAN ABHAY SINGH // abhay8942@gmail.com // New Delhi, 24 August Seventeen-year-old Aarti (name changed), who hails from West Bengal, tried to become a doctor, but her dream shattered when she was clandestinely brought to Delhi by traffickers in 2012 – pathetically in connivance with her father. In...
Statesman News Service/ Malda, 24 August Chief minister Mamata Banerjee’s dream project, ‘Kanyashree,’ has played a crucial role in curbing crimes like trafficking of women and children and child-marriage, the joint secretary of the women and child development and social welfare department, Sharmistha Das, claimed today. Using ‘Kanyashree’ as a...
PUBLISHED IN THE HINDU–A 14-year-old girl from Jharkhand was rescued near MG Road metro station here on Sunday in a joint operation by the Gurgaon Police and Shakti Vahini. The police acted on a tip-off received from a well-wisher who found the girl wandering near the metro station. The minor...
INSPECTOR SHARBARI BHATACHARJEE, ANTI HUMAN TRAFFICKING UNIT, CID WEST BENGAL . PRESENTING THE REAL MARDAANIS COMBATING HUMAN TRAFFICKING. SHE HAS BEEN INVOLVED IN SEVERAL RESCUE OPERATIONS MANY OF WHICH HAVE RESULTED IN CONVICTIONS, WE SALUTE HER WORK FOR THE CAUSE OF COMBATING HUMAN TRAFFICKING IN INDIA
PUBLISHED IN THE HINDU A minor Pahariya tribal girl, identified as a Particularly Vulnerable Tribe, from Jharkhand who was trafficked to Delhi from Agra to work as a domestic worker was rescued after her employer’s relative, who is an Inspector with the Delhi Police, informed public authorities and NGO Shakti...
PUBLISHED IN THE HINDU Saswati Mondal (name changed), a Class X student from the State’s South 24 Parganas district was trafficked to Delhi early this year and rescued from a red light district. Like many others she was lured by false promises of marriage and jobs. Speaking to The Hindu...
BY AMBIKA PANDIT PUBLISHED IN THE TIMES OF INDIA New Delhi: On the eve of India’s 68th Independence Day, a mother and daughter separated for almost one year took a step closer to reunion. The mother’s desperate search for her missing daughter brought to the capital from Jharkhand on the...
PUBLISHED IN HINDUSTAN TIMES NEW DELHI: Days after a 16-yearold girl was rescued from a GB Road brothel with the help of her brother, the police uncovered a massive traf ficking racket being run from West Bengal. The police took the victim to her hometown and arrested the woman who...
PUBLISHED IN THE TIMES OF INDIA BANGALORE: Four years in the cold storage is a long time. A proposed law ensuring the safety of domestic workers and a possible solution to safeguard minor domestic helps, has been sitting in the freezer, and will need to be redefined before it makes...
PUBLISHED IN THE HINDU The rescue of the 16-year-old girl, haling from Haroa in North 24 Parganas, from a red light area in Delhi last week, seems to have busted a trafficking racket. North 24 Parganas police have arrested Sk Sabir alias Rohit, the main accused, who kidnapped and trafficked...
