Haryana

36 Days of Type: Indian Laws That Shaped Our Lives
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36 Days of Type: Indian Laws That Shaped Our Lives

For #36DaysOfType, The Swaddle’s Denise D’Souza illustrated the A-Z of Indian laws that have impacted Indians in unforeseen ways. ⁠ The Armed Forces Special Powers Act of 1958 (AFSPA) grants the military the ability to maintain public order in ‘disturbed areas,’ through wide powers of arrest, the right to shoot to kill, and to occupy or…

Haryana Police to launch campaign against human trafficking in April
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Haryana Police to launch campaign against human trafficking in April

PNS/ Haryana Police will launch a month-long campaign against human trafficking across the state in April. Announcing this, the state Director General of Police (DGP) PK Agrawal on Thursday said that human trafficking is a heinous crime that affects thousands of people every year in the country; and the State has unearthed several cases of…

Sister Of Minor Abused By Gurugram Couple Still Missing: Police – NDTV.com
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Sister Of Minor Abused By Gurugram Couple Still Missing: Police – NDTV.com

  Gurugram: The 17-year-old domestic help who was tortured by her employers in Gurugram has an elder sister who too was brought from her village for work and has been untraceable for the last several months, police here said on Saturday. The girl was brought for work last year by a Delhi-based agency and was placed…

Haryana Wrestling Coach Abducts Minor Teen, Adopts Islam to Marry Her – News18
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Haryana Wrestling Coach Abducts Minor Teen, Adopts Islam to Marry Her – News18

Naveen Nara, a resident of Rohtak, was already married and changed his religion so he could marry the 16-year-old female wrestler without facing criminal action A wrestling coach from Haryana allegedly abducted a minor female wrestler from Madhya Pradesh and married her after changing his religion in Rohtak, as per the Madhya Pradesh police. Naveen…

Explained | How is India planning to end child marriage? – The Hindu
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Explained | How is India planning to end child marriage? – The Hindu

The story so far: The steering committee of a global programme to end child marriage is on a visit to India to witness state interventions which have helped reduce the prevalence of child marriage. The visit by the UNFPA-UNICEF Global Programme to End Child Marriage team is in view of an estimated increase in number…

HC annuls Muslim girl's marriage, says Pocso overrides personal law – MSN
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HC annuls Muslim girl's marriage, says Pocso overrides personal law – MSN

Marriage of a Muslim minor girl, even if allowed under the religion’s personal law, is invalid as it violates provisions of the Protection of Children from Sexual Offences (POCSO) Act, the Karnataka high court has observed in its recent order. Hearing a bail plea of a man who married a minor Muslim girl, the high…

Inside The Crypto Human Trafficking Rings In Myanmar, Cambodia & Laos – Inc42
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Inside The Crypto Human Trafficking Rings In Myanmar, Cambodia & Laos – Inc42

While the GainBitcoin scam involved more than INR 90K Cr, this particular story of human trafficking and crypto fraud seems even more chilling and heinous Victims are forced to manage fake social media profiles and collect personal and financial data from people who can be potentially trapped in crypto fraud or online betting The company…

Modern slavery – Millennium Post
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Modern slavery – Millennium Post

When incidents of forced labour or sex trafficking hit the headlines, the law-enforcing machinery suddenly gets into a firefighting mode. Victims are rescued and success stories circulate. But the magnitude of human trafficking and its disastrous impact on people and society often go unnoticed. According to an UNDOC report, the most common forms of human…

President gives assent to Haryana law declaring child marriages void – Tribune India
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President gives assent to Haryana law declaring child marriages void – Tribune India

PTI New Delhi, September 27 President Droupadi Murmu has given her assent to a legislation of Haryana under which every child marriage that has been solemnised will be considered as “void ab initio” (having no legal effect from inception), thus making a marital relationship between a man and a girl aged between 15 and 18…

For Indian Girls, 'Every Case of Trafficking Is a Failed Revolution' – The Diplomat
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For Indian Girls, 'Every Case of Trafficking Is a Failed Revolution' – The Diplomat

Human trafficking, an issue affecting mainly women and girls, is deeply rooted in India. Although it is difficult to measure the exact scale of the issue due to its hidden and illegal nature, thousands of women and girls are trafficked through the country every year, according to government statistics. There are many forms of human…