By Spl Correspondent Published in The Assam Tribune NEW DELHI, Jan 1 – In what should be a cause of concern, human trafficking from Assam is on the rise, with some NGOs now planning to shift their focus to the North East as traffickers have started making inroads into the...

RAIPUR: Union ministry of women and child and home affairs have issued order to Chhattisgarh and each district collector to launch yet another dedicated campaign ‘Operation Smile II’ from January 1 to 31, 2016 to intensify tracking of missing children and conduct raids at public places to identify street children....

A minor girl Anita Singha (name changed) from Naxalbari Block of District Darjeeling has been rescued from being married to person of Gurgaon in a joint intervention of Naxalbari Block, Police and NGO Shakti Vahini, a National Level Voluntary Organization working to prevent trafficking of human beings. Shakti Vahini got...

PIB NEWS The Union Home Minister Shri Rajnath Singh has said that Human Trafficking is a very sensitive and serious issue. Terming it as a borderless organised crime, he said that India alone is not a victim of human trafficking as it is a global phenomena. Citing a recent report...

PUBLISHED IN THE HINDUSTAN TIMES Gurgaon police have arrested a businessman and employer of a 14-year-old minor girl who was rescued from a house in Krishna Colony of Gurgaon on Wednesday evening by an NGO and Gurgaon police. The girl was found with deep bruises all over her body. The...

PUBLISHED IN THE TIMES OF INDIA LUCKNOW: Uttar Pradesh may soon have anti-human trafficking police stations and a special task force to check the menace in state. The decisions were taken by the State Advisory Committee to Combat Human Trafficking which met on Thursday after 15 years. “While government has...

PUBLISHED IN THE HINDU A minor girl from the endangered Paharia tribe of Jharkhand, who was forced to work as a domestic help in Sushant Lok Phase­I here, was rescued during a joint operation conducted by NGO Shakti Vahini and Haryana Police. The 17­year­old girl, who was not allowed by...

PUBLISHED IN THE TIMES OF INDIA NEW DELHI: Two minors from West Bengal landed in a trafficking net after they called up an agency that had advertised a job in a newspaper. They accompanied an “officer” of the agency to Delhi but were employed at the house of a businessman...

by Damayanti Datta, 30 July 2015 PUBLISHED IN INDIA TODAY MAGAZINE Traffickers who pose as well-wishers, parents who reap benefits, villagers who keep quiet and countries that turn a blind eye. An India Today investigation uncovers the shocking underbelly of sex trade that has surged alarmingly in the wake of...

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 THE TELEGRAPH CALCUTTA Guwahati, July 29: Police with the help of an NGO rescued two trafficking victims from Guwahati railway station last evening. Kaberi Sarma, general secretary of the anti-trafficking NGO, Global Organisation for Life Development (GOLD), said the girls were being taken to New Delhi with the...

PUBLISHED IN THE ASSAM TRIBUNE GUWAHATI, July 29 – A court in Haryana awarded seven years rigorous imprisonment to three persons involved in selling of a girl belonging to Assam for slavery and forced marriage. The judgement, which was pronounced a few days back, is seen as a breakthrough one...

PUBLISHED IN  THE TIMES OF INDIA RANCHI: Four minors, including two from Jharkhand, who were forced into flesh trade were rescued in Delhi on Monday night. Police on Wednesday arrested three accused from Bihar. Ghaziabad DSP Ranvijay Singh said, “One of the girls called up her family in Ghaziabad after...

PUBLISHED IN TIMES OF INDIA NEW DELHI: The rape and murder of a nine-year-old girl in Begampur has once again brought the plight of missing children and the dangers that they face to the fore. Voluntary organizations and child rights activists said the government and law enforcement agencies have failed...

PUBLISHED IN HINDUSTAN TIMES Parental neglect, lack of education, poverty and absence of a support system, at school and home, are forcing juveniles into crime in the Capital, a child rights panel has said in a report to the Delhi government. The report comes days ahead of the monsoon session...

PUBLISHED IN HINDUSTAN TIMES Three girls trafficked from Jharkhand were allegedly put on sale as sex workers by traffickers to customers in Uttar Pradesh on mobile messaging application WhatsApp, police said on Thursday. The girls, including two minors, were rescued by the Uttar Pradesh Police and anti-trafficking activists from a...

PUBLISHED IN THE TIMES OF INDIA NEW DELHI: Children trafficked to the capital were rescued in two different operations on Sunday evening. In one of them, a distress call by a woman led police to a trafficking syndicate based in Assam who were found to have kidnapped more than 25...

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...

PHEROZE L. VINCENT IN THE TELEGRAPH New Delhi, July 17: Police have rescued three minor girls from Jharkhand’s Gumla and Ramgarh from a house in West Delhi where they were kept captive and primed for flesh trade before being sold to pimps. Aged between 13 and 17, the Jharkhand minors...

PUBLISHED IN DAINIK JAGRAN जागरण संवाददाता, आगरा: मानव तस्करी और बालकों के लैंगिक अपराधों को रोकने लिए शनिवार को पुलिस लाइन में कार्यशाला का आयोजन किया गया। इसमें शक्ति वाहिनी संस्था के संचालक और सुप्रीम कोर्ट के अधिवक्ता रविकांत और रिषिकांत ने पुलिस अधिकारियों और संस्थाओं के लोगों को आवश्यक...