DEVESH PANDEY IN THE HINDU Why does the Delhi Police dither when it comes to taking action against those involved in trafficking and the commercial sexual exploitation of women and girls at the brothels in the heart of the city on Shraddhanand Marg? The police claim that they are caught...
HINDUSTAN TIMES The Delhi High Court on Wednesday said inaction against brothel owners and failure to lodge FIR against them was the main reason why a large number of rescued minor girls are once again forced back into flesh trade. The court also asked the petitioner, human rights NGO Shakti...
TIMES OF INDIA NEW DELHI: A 16-year-old trafficking victim was rescued from Morni village in Panchkula, Haryana, on Wednesday. She had been confined and sexually abused for a fortnight before being rescued out by a team of West Bengal Police, Haryana Police and NGO Shakti Vahini. Though two of the...
OUR CORRESPONDENT/ THE TELEGRAPH KOLKATTA New Delhi, April 23: National Child Rights Protection Commission (NCPCR) today ordered an inquiry into the mysterious deaths of two teenaged tribal girls from Jharkhand who were allegedly trafficked to the capital earlier this month. The girls, Jyoti Mariyam Horo and Jayma Gudia, aged around...
DEVESH PANDEY IN THE HINDU The long journey of Debyani (name changed) from her village in the Burdwan district of West Bengal to Delhi and then to Bharatpur in Rajasthan is a saga of a minor girl who was kidnapped by traffickers and sold off for forced marriage and then...
THE HINDU A teenage girl, a native of Jalpaiguri in West Bengal, was rescued from a doctor’s house here on Wednesday within hours of her mother approaching the local police with a missing complaint. The girl was rescued in a joint raid by the Gurgaon Police and non-government organisation Shakti...
Priya Esselborn for gbDW.DE The fate of housekeepers in India has mostly played out behind closed doors. Human rights groups, however, have now turned their attention to the abuse these modern-day slaves endure. It was a particularly repugnant case that grabbed headlines last April. A 13-year-old girl from Jharkand –...
