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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…
New Delhi: Marriage before a certain age is a crime in the eyes of the law. For this, the minimum age of marriage for boys and girls has been fixed. But in different parts of the country girls are married before a certain age. In many cases, girls are married as minors. What is the…
CHENNAI: In a country-wide operation, the National Investigation Agency (NIA) arrested 45 Popular Front of India (PFI) functionaries including 11 from Tamil Nadu after coordinated searches with Enforcement Directorate and respective state police at the organisation’s offices and the leaders’ houses on Thursday. Those arrested in Tamil Nadu, as per an NIA statement, are identified…
MANISH GUPTA Ranchi, Sept 26: Jharkhand has the highest percentage of girls being married before they attain 18 years of age, as per the latest demographic survey brought out by the Office of the Registrar General and Census Commissioner, Ministry of Home Affairs. “The percentage of females who got effectively married before reaching 18 years…
A 14-year-old girl missing from UP was reunited with her parents, thanks to the Anti-Human Trafficking Unit (AHTU) of Haryana Police. The girl is differently abled (Divyang) and had been living at a shelter home in Kerala. According to Haryana Police, the Child Welfare Inspector, Kozhikode (Kerala), had contacted the Haryana Crime Branch and told…
© Provided by The Indian Express THE CONVICTION rate in human trafficking cases across the country continues to be low, according to the latest report of the National Crime Records Bureau (NCRB). While police filed chargesheets in 84.7 per cent of the 2,189 cases registered under the Anti-Human Trafficking Units (AHTUs) across the country in…
To curb human trafficking, representatives of six States — Telangana, Andhra Pradesh, Karnataka, Kerala, Odisha and Tamil Nadu — on Saturday signed an Inter-State Declaration of Intent to work in collaboration. The first-of-its-kind consultation focuses on joint efforts on intelligence gathering and sharing; legal and witness protection; and rehabilitation and care for survivors. The declaration…
PTI New Delhi, July 1 Sunil worked at a Chennai bakery for 12 hours a day for an income so meagre that it did not meet even his own expenses and innocent indulgences. He is just 14. Sixteen-year-old Renu worked as a domestic help in a posh locality in Delhi, sacrificing her childhood. Separated by…
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