PUBLISHED IN THE HINDU At a time when trafficking of women and children continues to be a major concern for policy makers in West Bengal, activists have launched a signature campaign highlighting the need for a legislation to curb the activities of illegal placement agencies operating in the State. Activists...
BY RASHMI DROLIA PUBLISHED IN THE TIMES OF INDIA RAIPUR: She may not be a decorated encounter cop or a trained undercover agent, but she displayed unusual grit and gumption to bust organised trafficking rings at vulnerable patches of Delhi to earn the sobriquet of Chhattisgarh’s ‘Mardani’. After nabbing 15...
Tribune News Service Faridabad, December 5 Two minor girls reportedly brought to Faridabad some days ago and allegedly sold for Rs 30,000 to a resident as domestic helpers have been rescued. The girls, one of whom is a Bangladeshi national and the other is from West Bengal, have been lodged at...
PUBLISHED IN THE GUARDIAN-BY ANU ANAND Business in brides is booming in north-west India as a result of female foeticide, but the women bought and sold are often trapped in lives of slavery and abuse Just 90 minutes’ drive from the thriving city of Gurgaon, near Delhi, a business hub...
PUBLISHED IN THE TIMES OF INDIA NEW DELHI: A human trafficker committed a blunder of calling a woman cop from Chhattisgarh Police camping with her team in the city after which his number was tracked and the wanted man arrested. The criminal had called to threaten the cop with dire...
PUBLISHED IN THE TIMES OF INDIA RAIPUR: Chhattisgarh police camping in Delhi for two weeks to traffickers have arrested the mastermind, who is accused of trafficking of over 10,000 minors, mostly tribals, from Chhattisgarh Jharkhand and Assam. Shockingly, the state woman police official leading the team in raids was threatened...
PUBLISHED IN CHATTISGARH रायपुर | संवाददाता: छत्तीसगढ़ के जशपुर की 10वर्षीया लड़की को दिल्ली में 35हजार रुपयों में बेचा गया. इसका खुलासा तब हुआ जब छत्तीसगढ़ पुलिस तथा गैर सरकारी संगठन शक्ति वाहिनी के सदस्यों ने संयुक्त रूप से उत्तर दिल्ली के मॉडल टाउन से 18 वर्षीया लड़की को बरामद...
In India marrying someone outside your caste or religion can be a death sentence. Honor killings are not uncommon in some of the rural areas across India. Although there are no laws that say you must marry within your caste or religion, local rural courts have been known to act...
PUBLISHED IN THE TIMES OF INDIA RAIPUR: In a major breakthrough, Chhattisgarh police team in joint collaboration with Delhi-based NGO Shakti Vahini, traced 18-year-old girl who went missing in 2006 ago as a teen. She was rescued from a residence at North Delhi’s model town area on Wednesday evening. The...
PUBLISHED IN THE INDIAN EXPRESS Police teams from three states, along with local NGOs, were in the city to conduct raids and rescue trafficked children and women, who were allegedly brought to the city by “placement agencies” and forced to work as domestic help. The teams from Jharkhand, West Bengal...
PUBLISHED IN THE TELEGRAPH New Delhi, Nov. 22: All she remembers is that she was working as a domestic help for about a week in a three-storied house with 10 to 12 members. Thankfully now, 15-year-old Payel (name changed) is going back home to Khunti, thanks to a couple of...
PUBLISHED IN THE TIMES OF INDIA RAIPUR: Chhattisgarh police team, which is in New Delhi to crackdown on trafficking racket, has accused Delhi police of not cooperating with further investigation to find the main accused involved in trafficking of children. State police, in a series of raids, had busted a...
PUBLISHED IN THE TIMES OF INDIA RAIPUR: Six human trafficking kingpins, including a woman involved in selling hundreds of children from Chhattisgarh’s Jashpur district were arrested during series of raids conducted at Delhi’s Shakurpur and Motinagar areas. Ten children, including four boys were rescued. The children hailing from Pathalgaon region...
RASHMI DROLIA IN THE TIMES OF INDIA RAIPUR: With Supreme Court directing Chhattisgarh government to trace missing children within a month, state police rushed to form special teams to find trafficked children from different parts of country. On November 13, the apex court had summoned Madhya Pradesh chief secretary for...
PUBLISHED IN THE TIMES OF INDIA NEW DELHI: Punjab, Haryana, Uttar Pradesh have joined 18 other states to empower the Centre to bring a legislation against honour killings, in what could be a turnaround moment for the effort to curb the powers of caste and community bodies which seek to...
IBN LIVE/CNN IBN New Delhi: The National Commission for Women (NCW) is set to propose legalisation of sex trade to a committee appointed by the Supreme Court but according to sources the Women & Child Development ministry isn’t in favour the idea. Ever since the news of the National Commission...
PUBLISHED IN THE TIMES OF INDIA Ranchi: Pannalal Mahato, the trafficking kingpin who was arrested in Delhi last month, has admitted to working with an association that provided trafficked girls to around 250 placement agencies in Delhi. Mahato and his wife Sunita Devi were arrested on October 19 after a...
PUBLISHED IN NAI DUNIA रायपुर । छत्तीसगढ़ में मानव तस्करी करने वाले सरगना पन्नालाल महतो को दिल्ली पुलिस ने गिरफ्तार किया है। यह झारखंड और छत्तीसगढ़ के बच्चों और महिलाओं को दिल्ली ले जाकर बेचने का काम करता था। अब छत्तीसगढ़ पुलिस पन्नालाल से पूछताछ करने की तैयारी कर रही...
SHAKTI VAHINI NEWS OCTOBER 26 , 2014 A 19 year old girl hailing from Jalpaiguri district has been rescued from the red light area of Siliguri on Saturday night in a joint raid operation by Samuktala PS, Khalpara OP and Shakti Vahini, a national level anti trafficking organization. Shakti Vahini received the...
PUBLISHED IN PUNJAB KESRI नई दिल्ली: दिल्ली के शकूरपुर इलाके में पुलिस ने एक फर्जी प्लेसमेंट एजेंसी का भंडाफोड़ किया है जो मानव तस्करी में लिप्त था। पुलिस ने वहां से एक महिला को भी गिरफ्तार किया है। पुलिस के अनुसार, गिरफ्तार महिला गायत्री (30), मानव तस्करी के एक बड़े...
