PUBLISHED IN THE HINDU The victim, who was rescued from Vasant Kunj, says she was forced to sign documents Seven months after Phul Murmu (name changed), who used to work as a domestic help at Vasant Kunj, was rescued with signs of torture and physical abuse, she has complaint to...

PUBLISHED IN THE HINDU The victim, kidnapped from West Bengal, was rescued from G.B. Road during a raid conducted by the police last year A 26-year-old woman has been put behind bars for seven years by a Delhi court for trafficking a girl from West Bengal. She was forced into...

PUBLISHED IN THE HINDU Last November, the Delhi Government had submitted before the Delhi High Court that within eight weeks it would notify minimum standards of care and protection for trafficked victims. Nearly six months have gone by and despite many such cases being reported since, the notification is yet...

By AKANSHA JAIN – PUBLISHED IN THE HINDU 10-year jail for two women who forced girl into prostitution Coming across the case of a minor girl who was sold to a woman running a brothel here for prostitution, a court here has given the Delhi Police seven days to close...

PUBLISHED IN THE HINDU Police in Delhi and Jharkhand yet to register FIR In the most recent of recurring cases of minors trafficked from rural areas to work as domestic workers in the city, a 14-year old Adivasi girl from Jharkhand was rescued from Kashmiri Gate on May 5 after...

AMBIKA PANDIT IN THE TIMES OF INDIA NEW DELHI: Rescued from a wooden box at a brothel in GB Road on April 26, 17-year-old Neeru (name changed), who had been kidnapped from West Bengal’s 24 Parganas and dumped in Delhi, has been reunited with her family. The girl had appeared...

PUBLISHED IN THE HINDU Were locked inside a trunk; 2 trafficked on promise of marriage In a joint rescue operation, the Delhi Police and NGO Shakti Vahini have rescued eight girls, including a minor, who were locked inside a trunk in a brothel on GB Road. Two of them were...

PUBLISHED IN THE INDIAN EXPRESS Eight girls, including a minor, were rescued from a brothel on GB Road in a joint operation by the Delhi Police and NGO Shakti Vahini on Saturday. Senior police officers said a woman identified as Padma has been arrested. The girls, who are from West...

AMBIKA PANDIT IN THE TIMES OF INDIA NEW DELHI: A tribal girl from West Bengal was found hanging from a grill in the courtyard of her employer’s house in Faridabad on April 14. She had a dog’s leash around her neck. Till date, no FIR has been lodged in the...

PUBLISHED IN THE HINDU A girl trafficked from a West Bengal village five years ago has been rescued by a joint team of the Delhi police, the Kolkata police and the members of NGO Shakti Vahini. The girl was a minor when she was brought to Delhi in the name...

AMBIKA PANDIT IN THE THE TIMES OF INDIA NEW DELHI: Estimates say there are over 50 million of them in the country. Yet, domestic workers remain unrecognized and unaccounted for in the legal framework. Their demand for a legislation to recognize and regulate domestic work isn’t new. But as India...

AMBIKA PANDIT IN THE TIMES OF INDIA NEW DELHI: More than 4,500 sex workers live in the dingy lanes off Swami Shradhanand Marg in the national capital’s Chandni Chowk constituency. It’s one dark corner that politicians generally skip. But as campaigning reaches fever pitch for polling here on April 10...

PUBLISHED IN THE HINDU The Delhi Police’s idea of putting up pictures of trafficked and missing girls on a notice board hanging outside the police post on GB Road has proved to be a dud as policemen posted there say that no one has ever come to them with information...

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...

PUBLISHED IN THE HINDU A 15-year-old girl trafficked from Murshidabad district of West Bengal was rescued from a village in Shahjahanpur district in Uttar Pradesh on Friday. The rescue operation was jointly conducted by the police forces of West Bengal and Uttar Pradesh along with NGO Shakti Vahini. According to...

PUBLISHED IN THE TIMES OF INDIA RANCHI: A minor girl belonging to Jharkhand’s Gumla district was rescued from Jaipur on Sunday night. According to information provided by the girl to the Jaipur police, she was allegedly trafficked by M.K Service, a placement agency running illegally in the national capital. The...

Kelly Kisalaya in The Times of India RANCHI: Two trafficked girls from Ranchi were rescued in Delhi-NCR on Thursday when police teams from Ranchi, Delhi and Uttar Pradesh conducted raids, jointly with an NGO, at two places. An 18-year-old girl was rescued from a house in Ghaziabad. Rishi Kant, member...

THE HINDU A 22-year-old woman from Assam, who was trafficked to Haryana for a forced marriage and sold to a 43-year-old villager in Kaithal, has been rescued. Two persons, including the victim’s aunt Meena Kumari, have been arrested. Meena, a resident of Guwahati, allegedly coaxed the woman to accompany her...

PUBLISHED IN THE WEEK Child trafficking is the recruitment, transport, transfer or receipt of a child for exploitation. The International Labour Organization estimates that globally, 1.2 million children are trafficked each year. The US State Department ranks countries by how they adhere to anti-human trafficking laws. They are categorised as...

RASHMI DROLIA IN TIMES OF INDIA RAIPUR:  Chhattisgarh’s police team along with an NGO- Shakti Vahini rescued an 18-year-old girl of Raigarh district from Indrapuri area of New Delhi on Friday. According to the girl, she was sold for Rs 30,000 for a year to a family as domestic help...