PUBLISHED IN THE TIMES OF INDIA RAIPUR: Taking cognizance of notice issued by National Commission for Scheduled Tribes to Chhattisgarh police for delay in lodging FIR and furnishing details, Bijapur police in Bastar finally lodged FIR and arrested three persons, weeks after rescue of Bijapur tribal girl, who was trafficked...

PUBLISHED IN HINDUSTAN TIMES Fifteen years ago when Lata Lakra came to Delhi from Jharkhand, life was tough. As a domestic help, the hours were long, the work strenuous and a salary of Rs 2,000 just not enough. Today, the 35-year-old has a flat in Delhi, a shopping complex and a...

NDTV Jharkhand has emerged as India’s trafficking hub with thousands of tribal boys and girls, particularly minor girls being trafficked out of the state each year to Delhi and beyond. More than 4000 children went missing from the state in the last 10 years, and over 1000 are yet to...

PUBLISHED IN THE HINDUSTAN TIMES B Vijay Murty/Saurav Roy, Hindustan Times, Simdega/ Khunti/Lohardagga “I will never go to Delhi,” she whispers when she hears the visiting HT Team talk of the national capital. As with thousands of children trafficked from Jharkhand every year, Delhi has been very cruel to Reeta....

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 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 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...

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...

नगर संवाददाता, नई दिल्ली -PUBLISHED IN NAVBHARAT TIMES दिल्ली में बच्चों के लापता होने के मामले लगातार बढ़ रहे हैं। एक एनजीओ की स्टडी में सामने आया है कि सितंबर में ही बच्चों के लापता होने के मामले करीब 30 पर्सेंट तक बढ़े हैं। एनजीओ की स्टडी में सामने आया...

PUBLISHED IN THE TIMES OF INDIA NEW DELHI: A 13-year-old school dropout from Jharkhand’s Maoist-hit Simdega district promised domestic work in Delhi was found at Rajouri Garden Metro station by police on Sunday after she ran away from her employer’s house unable to bear the mistreatment. Her story has again...

NAVBHARAT TIMES दिल्ली में बच्चों के लापता होने के मामले लगातार बढ़ रहे हैं। एक एनजीओ की स्टडी में सामने आया है कि सितंबर में ही बच्चों के लापता होने के मामले करीब 30 पर्सेंट तक बढ़े हैं। एनजीओ की स्टडी में सामने आया है कि सितंबर 2014 में 213...

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 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...

ANUMEHA YADAV PUBLISHED IN THE HINDU It was late afternoon on December 21, 2012, five days after five men and a juvenile gang-raped and fatally assaulted a 23-year-old paramedic student in a moving bus in Delhi. The stream of people walking towards Raisina Hill kept growing. Every few minutes, a...

PUBLISHED IN THE TIMES OF INDIA BY AMBIKA PANDIT RANCHI: Wading past the surging devotees, Poonam Devi makes a desperate bid to reach a man walking a few metres ahead of her. Her struggle ends in vain as he disappears in the crowd out to witness the “rath yatra” that...

By Neetu Chandra Published in MAIL TODAY Millions of domestic workers in Indian homes are a part of an informal and “invisible” workforce due to absence of a specific legislation meant for their protection, the International Labour Organisation said on Wednesday. The number of maids has gone up by nearly...

EI SAMAY It’s 1 a.m. I peep through my burkha to scan the nearly empty street. I’m a bit frightened. After all, this is Delhi. Post-nirbhaya Delhi. But fear won’t aid me today as I wait under the designated light post. Oily hair. Faded shirt with the sleeves rolled up....

BY PANKAJ SARMA  PUBLISHED IN THE TELEGRAPH Guwahati, Dec. 27: A mother of two who was sold off as a bride and a minor girl who was held captive by a man, both from Morigaon district of Assam, were rescued from Haryana in two separate raids this week. A police...

BY KELLY KISHLAYA – PUBLISHED IN THE TIMES OF INDIA RANCHI: Trafficking from Jharkhand has increased threefold in the past three years, show data released by the social welfare, women and children development department that has worked on the basis of rescued persons. As many as 441 people have been...