Campaign Against Bride Trafficking (INDIA)

Bhaskar Sting : Give me 1.25 Lakh, I guarantee I will get you an 18-20-year-old girl from Bihar, have settled 10-15 relationships so far.

noreply@blogger.com (EMPOWER PEOPLE) — Sat, 6 Feb 2021 02:02:00 -0800

In Morena district, a network of brokers who buy and sell girls from Bihar and Uttar Pradesh for one and a half lakh rupees is active to get older men married. Recently, the case was revealed when a girl brought from Ambah from Bihar in Ambah accused her in-laws of harassment. On the complaint of this girl who turned out to be a minor in the investigation, the action is being taken to register a case against her husband and her in-laws.

After this case, Dainik Bhaskar did a sting operation and contacted the people associated with such network, then a broker bluntly said - Give me 1.25 lakh rupees, I guarantee I will buy you to 18 to 20 years old girl from Bihar. He also claimed to have 10 to 15 marriages by forging such purchases. There are more than two dozen brokers active in the network, who are looking for youths who are unable to get married even after they are financially prosperous. These brokers buy girls from Bihar, Banaras, Chhatarpur for more than 100 middle-aged virgins every year by taking a fee of Rs 50,000. This trend has also increased rapidly in the upper and rich communities.

The serious thing is that 50 per cent of these brides, after staying in the in-laws' house for two to three months, disappear with their belongings. Half of these cases do not even reach the police stations due to fear of social disgrace. A similar case was revealed in Ambah recently when the girl complained against her in-laws accusing them of harassment.

Cheating Found: The girl who was bought for around 0.5- 1 lakh absconded, missing in the police station.

1. A young man from a wealthy family living in Ganeshpura area of the city brought a bride from Chhatarpur for one lakh rupees. Three months later, during the lockdown, the woman came out of her mother-in-law's Nainagarh road carrying bags in the afternoon and boarded a bus to Gwalior. From here she took a bus and reached her village Chhatarpur. The young man gave an application in City Kotwali and informed about his wife being missing but after the news of her arrival at home, the family sat silent.

2. A young man from a rich family living in Jaura brought a bride from Bihar for one lakh rupees through a broker six months ago. For two months her daughter-in-law lived in the house harmoniously. After this, she ran along with the cash and jewellery kept in the house. Fearing social shame, the family did not register a complaint with the police station.

The broker said - I want 50 thousand, I will get you married in this season only

Bhaskar reporter faked as Ramjeevan Gupta, Gwalior and talked to Broker Bindu Baniya on his landlord's mobile number 88157-63022. The recording of the conversation is safe with Bhaskar.

A small expert from Broker and Bhaskar's phone conversations,

Do not worry, I am guaranteeing I will do a solid job ...

Bhaskar: My son has a stall of Chat in Gwalior, has turned 35 years old. Settle something for him.

Broker: Okay, see me tomorrow.

I live in Gwalior. Where do you want to meet, Gwalior or Morena? Whatever you want.

Bhaskar - How much will they spend

Broker: Panditji must have told. It will cost 1.25 lakh rupees.

Bhaskar - It should not happen that our son becomes a victim of fraud.

Broker: We guarantee, nothing like this will happen.

Bhaskar- Money to be paid at one time or in instalments.

Broker: Give me 50 thousand when it's done.

Bhaskar - The girl must be of a young age.

Broker: Brother, get it, I have a party in Vikram Ganj Bihar. My wife also from the same village. I have done 15 ties so far. How old will your son be and what is his colour.

Bhaskar - 34-35 years old, dark coloured, but the girl should not be less than 20-22 years old.

Broker: You do not take tension, you will get 18 to a 19-year-old girl. There are many in Gwalior too. I am guaranteeing I will do a solid job. If the party comes, its expenses will be yours, and not there’s. I will go to Bihar, bring the party and then talk.

Bhaskar - Don't worry about your expenses.

Broker: I talk to them while sitting face to face. I will get them married in this season

The Hindi Daily Dainik Bhaskar had published their sting here... https://dainik-b.in/prKnFMgoAdb We have translated this news article to make it visible to anti trafficking Activists and agencies,

Teen girl raped and sold by Maternal uncle for 1.50 lac

noreply@blogger.com (EP Admin) — Sat, 29 Jun 2019 03:21:00 -0700

15-year-old teenager from Kushinagar district, had come to maternal grandfather's home in a village of Gorakhpur district of Uttar Pradesh. three persons, including Maternal uncle Rajaram, sold her in Haryana for 1.50 Lakh to 55 year old Rajendra Punia, a resident of Hisar. Rajendra sexually abused the teenager for six month and left her at Hisar railway station. from where she reached her home, the family kept mum on the incident to protect her from social stigma. the incident came into light after delivery. She gave birth to a Boy. Local police registred a case of trafficking and arrested the three men in the matter. Police is now hunting for buyer of the Girl Rajendra Punia.

FREE A TRAFFICKING VICTIM THIS RAMADAN

noreply@blogger.com (EMPOWER PEOPLE) — Wed, 8 May 2019 13:46:00 -0700

Dear Friends,

The blessed month of Ramadan has started - may Allah bestow His mercy and blessings on you and your families. Month of Ramzan is known for charity, the third pillar of Islam and Muslims have spiritual obligations to pay their Zakat, Sadaqah, Fidya or Kafarah this month. Other charities are almost a person's will but Zakat is necessary for the people's own assets and properties. Quran has designated eight categories of reason which are zakatable. freeing captives [or slaves] is one of those (see Quran-9:60).

Being a member of community I have seen people donating their Zakat for many purposes except freeing captives or slaves just because many of them believe that slavery doesn't exist on this planet which is factually wrong, the slavery has changed its form but it still is live and intense more than ever....
In 2006, I had established an organization, which is working to rescue and rehabilitate trafficked girls and helping communities to lift themselves out of poverty through education, training and supportive livelihoods.
I have started a fund raising to ask for your contribution. You can help us in liberating women in slavery and those who are desperately in need of support as

Righteousness Righteous are those who believe in God, the Last Day, the angels, the scriptures, and the prophets; and they give the money, cheerfully, to the relatives, the orphans, the needy, the traveller, the beggars, and to free slaves ... [𝑆𝑢𝑟𝑎ℎ 𝑎𝑙 𝑏𝑎𝑞𝑎𝑟𝑎ℎ 2: 177]

Freeing slaves and captives is your religious obligation

Visit here to make your contribution https://milaap.org/fundraisers/ramadan2019

Yours,

Shafiqur Rahman Khan

Feel free to follow me at Twitter and Facebook
You can also check out our website

‘Sold For Rs 4 Lakh’, Sundergarh Minor Girl Rescued From Rajasthan

noreply@blogger.com (EP Admin) — Fri, 8 Feb 2019 13:42:00 -0800

The Delhi Commission for Women (DCW) rescued a minor girl of Sundergarh district who was allegedly trafficked to Rajasthan in December 2017. As per reports, the anti-trafficking squad of the DCW raided a place in Jhunjhunu of Rajasthan and rescued the minor girl after her family sought their intervention. The 16-year-old minor girl is pregnant and has been brought to Delhi.

Father of the minor girl, a resident of Lathikata of Sundergarh, alleged that his daughter was sold-off to one Pawan Agarwal and Kisan Agarwal of Rajasthan two years back. Moreover, the relatives sold the girl without the knowledge of family, alleged the girl’s father.

“My relatives had sold my daughter to Pawan Agarwal and Kisan Agarwal of Rajasthan after kidnapping her. Following this, I lodged a police complaint at Lathikata. But the local police did not take any action. In January, I had approached the Delhi Commission for Women to rescue my daughter,” said the girl’s father.

Girls were raped before being sold, say cops

noreply@blogger.com (EP Admin) — Tue, 5 Feb 2019 01:45:00 -0800

AHMEDABAD: More terrifying details are emerging from the interrogation
interrogation of Maya Sathwara and her accomplice Prakash Marathi.
Isanpur police on Monday arrested one more accused involved in the human trafficking racket case from Bapunagar area. The accused has been identified as Prakash Marathi, a resident of Bapunagar who operates an auto rickshaw in the city.

It was revealed during the police investigation that Marathi and Maya Sathwara used to run the entire racket.

Marathi used to kidnap girls from different parts of the city in his auto and used to hand them over to Maya, who would later sell them in different areas of the country. It was also revealed during the investigation that in the kidnapping of the girls, Marathi was helped by another auto driver identified as Mahesh. For kidnapping the girls, both men used to get a cut from Maya. The police have been able to arrest Marathi from his house in Bapunagar area while the search for Mahesh is still on.

Saurabh Tolabiya, DCP Zone 6, said, "By interrogating Maya, we have found out that the accused have been involved in five human trafficking cases until now. However, we suspect that they are involved in more such cases, which will be revealed after further investigation. Our priority was to nab Marathi in the matter, which we did and his interrogation should reveal more details." Senior police officials suspect that around 50 more girls have been victims of the racket. Cops have sent teams to Kheda, Dakor and Bhavnagar where the girl was sold, to get more information from the families to whom she was sold to. Regarding the cases of five other kidnapped girls, cops have started investigating and are trying to contact the girls for further investigation.

Maya was selling girls for Rs 2 lakh

According to the police, after the girls were kidnapped, Maya used to give them some injections and liquor to keep them intoxicated. Meanwhile, she used to make fake documents for the girls such as aadhar card, voter id, etc and used to change their name. Later, posing as an agent or a family member of the girl, she used to get them married off to people in Kheda, Dakor and Bhavnagar, for which she used to charge money.

A few days after the marriage, she used to take the girls back from the family and later, sell them to a new family. When members of the family where the girl had initially been married off to, would come searching for the bride, she used to say that the girl has fled and she is also searching for her. She used the same modus operandi everywhere, and used to give a percentage to her partners Marathi and Mahesh.

18-year-old girl busted racket

In January 2017, an 18-year-old victim who had been kidnapped, managed to return to her family in Ahmedabad. She narrated the entire incident in front of the police about how she was sold thrice over by Maya to different families in Dakor, Kheda and Bhavnagar. In front of the family from Bhavnagar, the girl revealed the truth about Maya and narrated the entire incident. After that, the Bhavnagar family took her to Ahmedabad and found her parents.

Odisha Girl Sold In Haryana Rescued In Critical Condition

noreply@blogger.com (EP Admin) — Fri, 4 Jan 2019 13:21:00 -0800

Bhiwani police on Friday rescued a minor girl, a native of Odisha, in a critical condition after she reportedly jumped off a two-storey building to escape her tormentor.

The girl’s uncle had brought her to Haryana on the pretext of visiting a relative and later sold her to one Sandeep and his mother Sankuntala of Dhani village for Rs 2 lakh, two months ago.

The 15-year-old girl suffered critical injuries while attempting to flee and is now undergoing treatment at Hisar hospital.

The victim also told the police that Sandeep had forcefully married her at a local temple. Since then she was kept in confinement and constantly raped by him.

On basis of the girl’s statement, Haryana police have arrested the mother-son duo. They have been under sections of the Juvenile Justice (Care and Protection of Children) Act, Protection of Children from Sexual Offences Act and the Prohibition of Child Marriage Act.

Three Goalpara girls rescued

noreply@blogger.com (EP Admin) — Thu, 27 Dec 2018 01:04:00 -0800

Goalpara (Assam) police has rescued three along with a Minor girl who were abducted/lured to Rajasthan and Haryana.

A minor girl was recovered from Diggot of Haryana while one women from Palwal of Haryana and another from Sikar of Rajasthan. Raids were conducted by lakhipur police with help of local police in respective states. Three rescue were done under two separate FIR registered in Lakhipur police station.

Further investigation and rehabilitation are under process

Minor sold into marriage, escaped and registered case against Parents

noreply@blogger.com (EP Admin) — Sun, 9 Dec 2018 13:29:00 -0800

A minor girl has registered a case against her parents for selling her as bride. Native of Sirdala police station of Nawada has alleged that she was forcibly married off to Ranjit tewari of Nagdi village of Giridih (Jharkhand) in July 2018. After marriage she realised that she was sold into marriage for 1.5 lakhs. Upon realizing the fact and regular misbehave she fled to Bhabhua where her cousin sister sheltered her for few days later the girl approached the local police.
However, Her parents alleged that the girl had eloped with her boyfriend and blackmailing her parents for 3 lakhs. Police is investigating the case

Rajasthan men paid 59 thousands for marrying Jharkhand minor. Arrested

noreply@blogger.com (EP Admin) — Tue, 4 Dec 2018 09:25:00 -0800

Three Rajasthan men were arrested by GRP Kodarma for trafficking a minor girl from Ichak Police station of Hazaribagh. The accused had planned to take a train from Kodarma Railway station where the GRP was already alerted.
The accused confessed that they had paid Rs. 59,000/- to the step-mother of the minor for marrying her off to a 34 year old man.
After the confession from the arrested men, Police also detained the step-mother. She went on to confess that the minor girl was already married and this was her second marriage. The step-mother also confessed that she had received money from these youths but she insisted that the money was taken as a loan from them since they had become relatives after marriage.
Police is investigating the case.

Woman sold as bride with proper documentation

noreply@blogger.com (EP Admin) — Thu, 29 Nov 2018 02:02:00 -0800

A 30-year-old woman was kidnapped from Bhopal, taken to Indore and Rajasthan where she was sold for Rs 2 lakh. The woman was then raped for 24 days before the police managed to track and rescue her. The woman was held captive, raped multiple times a day. She was threatened that if she mentioned about this to anyone, she would be murdered. Meanwhile, the Bhopal police officials tracked her mobile phone and reached the house in Alwar where she was allegedly being tortured.

The woman was living with her parents in Bhopal after divorce with her husband. She started working in a private firm to earn her livelihood, while working she came into contact with man namely Subhash Yadav who promised her good job in Indore, he promised her that new job will pay at least 15000/month.

They stayed in Indore for two days and later he asked her to accompany her to Alwar for urgent work. They reached Alwar court where she made to sign few Stamped documents in pretext of Job. Later she realised she have signed marriage document. Deaf and mute Bholaram Yadav son of Rohitash yadav resident of Majra Ahir Alwar became her husband without her consent. Rohitash Yadav paid Rs. 200000 to subhash Yadav.
She was forced to go with Rohitash yadav of Majra-Ahir. She was living with her ‘husband’. Her mobile and other belongings was snatched, she was raped and confined in the room.

When she lost her contact with the family. Brother of the victim filled a missing report in Nishatpur police station. The call tracking system suggested the last location of the mobile around the village. Resultantly, an investigation was launched in the village and girl was rescued on 23^rd of September. FIR against all accused has been lodged. Father-Son has been arrested while Subhash yadav is still on run.

Hyderabad: Contract marriage menace continues, racket busted, four arrested

noreply@blogger.com (EP Admin) — Tue, 27 Nov 2018 19:21:00 -0800

Four people, including two women, were arrested in Hyderabad on 26 November 2018 for their involvement in a contract marriage racket.

They were arrested from a house in Mailardevpally, while the wedding-ceremonies were still going on.

Among the four arrested, one was a Sudanese, who was the 'groom', and the other three, all residents of Hyderabad, served as marriage brokers and witnesses to the 'nikah.

The 31-year-old Sudanese, Wail Mohammed, had paid Rs. 1L to Habib the agent, for the 'bride', for a three-month contract marriage.

The wedding was subsequently organized at a house in Roshan Colony, Vattepally (Mailardevpally), Monday.

The SOT got a whiff of the same and inspected the house, where they found the contract marriage was already underway.

Wail, Jahanuma-resident Habeeb, Shamem and Shabana were subsequently nabbed and cops also seized Wail's passport, two fake marriage agreements, one stamp pad, Rs. 1.1 lakh cash and $300.

Contract marriages aren't a new thing in the old city of Hyderabad.

It's rather a pretty prevalent practice, involving 'agents', who are city residents and Gulf nationals, who arrive in India on visit visa. These parties lure poor families and convince them to marry off their daughters against a huge sum.

Trend
After the 'nikah' gets done, the new helpless and hapless 'bride' is trafficked out of the country on forged documents arranged by the agent.

Orissa Girl sold to Rajasthan man for one lakh, rescued

noreply@blogger.com (EP Admin) — Fri, 26 Oct 2018 18:28:00 -0700

A Kolnara (Rayagada) girl was sold in Rajasthan for Rs 1 lakh by a conman, has been rescued.

The accused has been identified as Harian Mehta.

Mehta took the girl from Rayagada after promising her a job. However, he held the girl captive in Rajasthan and later sold her.

Her mother Himirika Gorimani and relatives approached Rayagada Collector and filed a complaint.

They also approached the District Labour officer.

On the direction of the Collector, a special team comprising two police officials and a labour officer was formed. The three-member team along with the victim’s mother visited Baran district of Rajasthan.

With the help of Baran district administration, they rescued the girl from Baunsakela village in the district where she was kept captive by Mehta at his house.

However, Mehta managed to give the slip to the cops.

Mother of 4, Puri woman sold as bride to a MP man. Rescued from Madhya Pradesh

noreply@blogger.com (EP Admin) — Fri, 26 Oct 2018 18:22:00 -0700

Thanks to the Puri Police, Dalit woman Daudi Mallick, a victim of trafficking, has finally been rescued from Madhya Pradesh, where she had been sold off and was being tortured.

The joint efforts of MP’s Ashok Nagar police and Puri police helped locating the woman along with her handicapped girl child. After her arrival at the Puri railway platform at about 11am on Tuesday by the Ajmeer-Puri express, she straightway moved to the Sadar police station for appearance along with her parents. After a preliminary interrogation, she was asked by the police to go home and reappear on Wednesday for a detailed grilling. Inspector General (Central) Saumendra Priyadarshi was relaxed after her rescue. Priyadarshi was one who had immediately ordered the Puri police to expedite the search operation and to be in touch with the MP police.

Puri SP Sarthak Sararngi said the victim was already under supervision of the Ashok Nagar police, after a request was made from his side. “I talked to SP, Ashok Nagar, personally and requested him to rescue the lady. Then the jurisdictional police rescued her and sent her to Puri,” said Sarangi.

The woman narrated her ordeal by the MP man whom she was sold off and showed some injury spots from her leg to neck. She said after interference of police and the local sarpanch, accused Dhusa Singh who had kept her a captive, sent her to Puri. He booked a ticket for her paying her handicapped daughter Rs 100, said Daudi who had not eaten anything throughout a long journey till arrival at Puri. She said Dusha was beating her every day after he knew her of being a mother of four children. He didn’t accept her even after a forcible marriage and asked her to return Rs 55,000. “One day, I ran out of home when I saw police van in the village. I lost the van as some neighbouring women dragged me into house,” said Daudi exposing a racket behind her trafficking which is operating in Puri. Notably, on October 14, Aru Mallick of Brahmagiri had lodged a complaint with the Puri sadar police that at a cost of Rs 55,000, his daughter Daudi had been sold off to one Dhusa Singh of Janata village near the Ashok Nagar railway station of MP.

minor girl was sold by her maternal grandmother

noreply@blogger.com (EMPOWER PEOPLE) — Fri, 9 Feb 2018 13:10:00 -0800

The Haryana Police on Saturday claimed to have busted a gang of criminals involved in human trafficking and has arrested two of its members and got three minor girls released after a raid conducted under the supervision of Assistant Commissioner of Police (ACP), Child Welfare Council (CWC).

A spokesman of Haryana Police said that these arrests were made following a complaint lodged at Women Police Station, Faridabad by a member of Child Welfare Council, Suman on January 28.

He said it was two years ago that a minor girl was sold by her maternal grandmother to a person Surinder for Rs 4,000.

Surinder brought the girls to his office where he allegedly sexually harassed her and then left her at someone’s residence as a domestic help. Now about 15 days ago, Mani Mishra, a friend of Surinder brought the girl to Faridabad and raped her several times by threatening her.

He also beat her and snatched Rs 30,000 which the girl had received as her wages for working as a domestic help. Therefore, the girl was admitted to Government Badshah Khan Hospital in Faridabad where she was medically examined and is still admitted there and undergoing treatment.

The spokesman said a special team of the crime branch Sector 30, police station, Faridabad, led by Inspector Sandeep Mor nabbed Surinder from the area of Police Station Surajkund on February 2. The accused was handed over to the team of ACP Puja Dabla for further investigation.

Surinder has admitted that he used to purchase girls from his neighbouring villages and sell them to Mani Mishra and members of his family for Rs 15,000 to Rs 20,000. They used to supply these girls in the National Capital Region and Faridabad to work as domestic help.

Surinder has admitted that he and Mani Mishra had sexually harassed the victim several times. Surinder disclosed during his interrogation while Mani Mishra and members of his family live in a house, the girls are kept in a separate house. Surinder had also engaged a care taker namely Arun to look after these girls.

On the basis of information provided by Surinder,the police recovered three girls from the house of Mani Mishra. The spokesman said the three girls who were recovered in a raid have been medically examined at the Badshah Khan Hospital. Surinder has so far sold 25 to 30 girls to Mani Mishra, the investigations so far have revealed.

BSF jawan arrested for trafficking

noreply@blogger.com (EMPOWER PEOPLE) — Tue, 30 Jan 2018 03:00:00 -0800

The Odisha police have arrested a Border Security Force constable from West Bengal on the charge of trafficking a woman from Malkangiri on the promise of marriage and abandoning her at Sonepat in Haryana, the police said on Monday.

An Odisha Police team with the help of its West Bengal counterpart arrested the constable from Rosan Bagh, Murshidabad on January 25.
He was produced before the court of additional chief judicial magistrate of Lalbagh, Murshidabad the next day and with its permission was taken on four days’ transit remand to Malkangiri on Sunday, the police said.

The Odisha police have registered a case of trafficking against the BSF constable, who hails from Rohat village in Sonepat district of Haryana, they said.

Severed connections

The constable had come in contact with the woman, who is from Chitrakonda area, when he was posted in Malkangiri district in 2012. In September next year he took the woman with him to Sonepat and kept her in a rented house there, police said.

The BSF constable allegedly had physical relation with the woman, who delivered a girl child in 2014. After the birth of the baby, the constable allegedly severed all connections with the woman, who stayed on in Sonepat for six months waiting for him.

As he did not return or keep contact, the woman returned to her paternal home at Chitrakonda and had complained to the Chitrakonda police station on February 27, 2017.

PTI

Nagaon Girl Sold by Father in Haryana, Arrested

noreply@blogger.com (EMPOWER PEOPLE) — Fri, 22 Dec 2017 13:12:00 -0800

Guwahati: The state has in shame again. In the recent incident, a daughter was sold by father in Haryana. The sensational incident took place in Nagaon, sources said.

As per reports, the victim’s father trapped her by saying that they are supposed to attend a wedding of their relative in Haryana and den sold her to a human trafficker.

The incident came in light after locals inquired about the victim girl to her father. Police arrested Narayan Dekaraj, father of the victim and a lady named Anuradha Pator in accused of trafficking, it added.

According to police officials, they are investigating the case and will bring back the girl by taking the information from the father and the lady.

The victim’s father trapped her by saying that they are supposed to attend a wedding
Police is investigating the case and will bring back the girl by taking the information

13-yr-old bride’s father sentenced to life term; grandmom, husband get 10 yrs

noreply@blogger.com (EMPOWER PEOPLE) — Wed, 1 Nov 2017 04:13:00 -0700

Nainital: The district and sessions court in Almora has sentenced the father of a 13-year-old bride to life imprisonment while her 38-year-old husband and her grandmother have been ordered to undergo rigorous imprisonment of 10 years each. The court held that “no sympathy” should be shown to the girl’s father, a resident of Khola village, and slapped a fine of Rs 15,000 on him on Monday.

The court order comes just days after the Supreme Court ruled that sexual intercourse between a man and his wife below 18 years of age will count as rape and the husband can face up to 10 years’ imprisonment under the IPC or even a life term under the POCSO Act. The apex court had also said that child marriages should be declared void and stringent punishment should be prescribed against family members who promote and perform such marriages.

In this case, the court in Almora has awarded the father of the minor bride life imprisonment under Sections 120B (criminal conspiracy) and 370 (4) (trafficking a minor) of the Indian Penal Code. He was also awarded rigorous imprisonment of two years under Section 10 of the Prohibition of Child Marriage Act, 2006. All sentences will run concurrently, the court said.

The husband of the underage bride, a resident of Aligarh in UP, was also awarded rigorous imprisonment of 10 years under Section 370 (4) of the IPC and rigorous imprisonment of 10 years under Section 120B of the IPC. Under Section 10 of the Prohibition of Child Marriage Act, 2006, he was awarded rigorous imprisonment of two years. His sentences will run concurrently and a fine of Rs 15,000 has also been imposed on him.

The grandmother of the minor, meanwhile, has been awarded rigorous imprisonment of 10 years under Section 370 (4) of the IPC and rigorous imprisonment of 10 years under Section 120B of the IPC. She has been slapped with a fine of Rs 10,000.

Four others, including family members and people from the village, have also been awarded a 10-year jail term each while three people were acquitted of all charges. Police had registered a case against 10 people in February after receiving a complaint about a child marriage being conducted in Khola village.

Taking a tough stand on the matter, sessions judge Gyanendra Kumar Sharma said that the convicts had ruined the life of a girl child. “In this case, I am of the view that the crime committed by the convicts is not a crime against any individual alone, but against society, which affects the grass root level of society in general and the few socially and economically backward areas of Uttarakhand in particular,” the order said.

The order further said, “The court considers there should be no sympathy with the father of the victim, who has arranged the marriage of a 13 years 7 months old girl child with a man of 38 years. In my opinion, the maximum punishment prescribed by law under Section 370 (4), IPC should be awarded to the convict, because it was his volition act to solemnize the marriage of his daughter (sic).”

The court also observed that the fine imposed on the convicts may not be sufficient for compensation and rehabilitation of the victim. The case has been recommended to the District Legal Services Authority, Almora, so that it can determine the compensation amount which would be kept as a fixed deposit in the name of the girl.

Sold off for Rs 30,000, 13 years old Assam girl rescued from trafficking

noreply@blogger.com (EMPOWER PEOPLE) — Fri, 27 Oct 2017 14:09:00 -0700

"At least 1,494 cases of human trafficking were registered in Assam out of total 6,877 cases of human trafficking were reported across the country. Trafficking has become so rampant in the state that Assam had topped the list of states affected by human trafficking.The state has recorded the highest number of human trafficking cases in the country in 2015. Manisha Dev Barman, a lawyer working for human trafficking victims, said many girls from the state have been found to be trafficked to Haryana, mainly for forced marriage. "She was sold off for Rs 30,000 to one Kalmat Kashyap who married her. GUWAHATI: A 13-year-old trafficking victim from the city's Katabari area was rescued by the city's Gorchuk Police from Jind district in Haryana was brought back on Saturday.

A 13-year-old trafficking victim from the city's Katabari area was rescued by the city's Gorchuk Police from Jind district in Haryana was brought back on Saturday. The girl went missing in April this year when she had gone on a road trip with a person named Mofisuddin."One Mofijuddin befriended her and lured her saying that he would take her to a road trip and to some religious destinations. The girl is from Meghalaya and was living here with her relatives," said Gorchuk police who were investigating the case.Mofisuddin has now been arrested and the girl was found in a Haryana village based on what he revealed during questioning , As Reported By TOI.

According to the Newspaper,She had been sold off for forced marriage. "She was sold off for Rs 30,000 to one Kalmat Kashyap who married her. Kalmat and another person, Manji, have been taken into custody for further investigation," police sources added.Preliminary probe revealed that Manji, who is also from Haryana, had been staying in the city for a few years now.

Neemuch Girl Sold in Punjab, Traced by Police

noreply@blogger.com (EP Admin) — Fri, 7 Apr 2017 19:24:00 -0700

Neemuch: A 17-year-old girl, who was lured into marriage and then sold in Punjab for Rs 70,000 has been rescued by Neemuch police of Madhya Pradesh.

Police have arrested the buyer and mother-daughter duo involved in the human trafficking racket. They have also rescued a woman and her daughter from Uttar Pradesh on the basis of information offered by them.

Radhika (name changed), a native of Pipliya in Neemuch, had gone missing last December, ASP Rajesh Kumar Sagar said. Baghna police probing the disappearance stumbled upon vital links in the case that led to Punjab where the girl was kept.

Not only the girl was recovered but the man Amitabh Agrawal who bought her was also netted by police from Amritsar.

Child trafficking goes unabated in Madhya Pradesh

noreply@blogger.com (EP Admin) — Sun, 19 Mar 2017 18:05:00 -0700

BHOPAL: Arrest of an absconder, who was involved in child trafficking, is a grim reminder of presence of traffickers within and outside the state.

The man arrested by by Avadhpuri police on Thursday, identified as Santosh Shinde, 45, is a resident of Kolar. He fled from Ayodhya Nagar police station in January 2015. The man was arrested for his alleged involvement in trafficking of minor girls from Bhopal to Rajgarh and Narsinhgarh. Once the lid was off his acts, he went to Gandhinagar and Nagpur, stayed there for two years and came back to Bhopal only recently.

Though he was inactive for last two years, his arrest points to a network of child traffickers, who are moving across the cities, eyeing vulnerable minors.

The racket works in a particular way in which girls and boys are trafficked for prostitution, marriages, labour and sometimes are even sold in foreign countries.

A source said, "The code for trafficking of girls among agents is "maal supply'. These agents get order either from the state or from Rajasthan, Haryana, Delhi, Maharashtra and Goa. Traffickers keep a watch on vulnerable minors. The moment they get "order", they send a girl to person, who gave them demand."

Police are hand in gloves with these traffickers. If hue and cry is made about trafficked child by public, agents return the child to police and if no objection is raised, police prefer to look the other way, a source said.

Bhopal is considered a safe haven for traffickers, who get them here from small towns of the state and sell them in other states. The human traffickers in capital particularly deal in bride trafficking in which girls are sold on the pretext of marriage to states like Rajasthan and Haryana. These girls are repeatedly sold by their buyers and have to face sexual abuse.

Prashant Dubey, a social activist, who is fighting against child trafficking, says agents in the city receive demands from Rajasthan for brides after which they lure the family of the girl and sell them.

The rackets works in a particular way. Families having male members past nubile age, contact agents in Rajasthan who, in turn, contact agents in Bhopal. These agents generally target girls from poor financial background and then lure their family by promising them a good and prosperous life after marriage.

Dubey said, "Once parents of a girl agree, she is taken to Rajasthan for marriage. The girl and his family don't have any right to reject the boy even if they don't like him. But the groom's family can reject them."

"Most of these girls are tribals and dalits, who have to go through a 'shuddhikaran' in Indore, in which they have to attend a religious ceremony, conducted by a priest for a period of eight days. It is only after this, they are eligible to get married to a groom of upper caste," he said.
Surprisingly, it is happening in a state, which has 24 anti-human trafficking units with an annual budget of more than Rs 7 lakh per unit. But still 24 children go missing from MP every day. The number of missing girls is double the number of boys, going State Crime Record Bureau (SCRB) statistics.
In last 10 years, more than 80,000 children went missing in the state. Of these, 82% children were traced. But, 18% are still missing. Traffickers are largely targeting tribal-dominated districts in the state for human trafficking. Tribal districts have maximum number of cases of girls trafficking.
Bharti Sharma, former chairperson of CWC, says, "In every six months, more than 50 children in an age group of 9-12 from Madhya Pradesh are rescued from Delhi. These children are sold by traffickers to agents in Delhi, who send them as domestic help or labourers in small scale industries."
"These children are exploited to the core. They are made to work 16-18 hours every day. They are not given food and beaten up every day. Sometimes, they are sexually assaulted. They are not paid for work," Sharma said
TOI

Rajasthan: Villagers rescue girl sold for Rs. 7 lakh

noreply@blogger.com (EP Admin) — Fri, 24 Feb 2017 13:07:00 -0800

A minor girl from Rajasthan's Alwar district was rescued by local villagers after her father had sold her off for Rs. 7 lakh to unknown persons in Haryana.

Alwar (Rajasthan) [India], A minor girl from Rajasthan’s Alwar district was rescued by local villagers after her father had sold her off for Rs. 7 lakh to unknown persons in Haryana.

“The minor girl has filed a complaint against her father and three other persons. The four have been detained and an inquiry has been initiated,” said Chetram Dagur, SHO, Laxmangarh

The girl was rescued when she began screaming for help while she was being forced into a car. The 14-year-old girl has alleged that along with her father, her mother was also a part of the conspiracy. Police have registered an FIR against all four accused under sections 363 and 120B.

Two minor Dalit girls kidnapped last month rescued

noreply@blogger.com (EMPOWER PEOPLE) — Tue, 5 Jul 2016 12:24:00 -0700

Mathura, Jul 5 (PTI) Two minor Dalit girls who were allegedly kidnapped by two youths from Ambedkar Nagar district nearly a month ago were today rescued from a guest house here, police said."Both the girls were recovered from Nagla Chandra Bhan- based guest house under Farah Police Station along with Prince, a youth," ASP Anupam Singh said.According to police, the two girls, aged 16 and 17, were lured and abducted by two youth -- Prince and Ankit -- resident of village Mahamadpur in Ambedkar Nagar district on June 11.Since then the two girls had been living in aforesaid guest house.Since location of both the minor girls was found in Mathura, SSP Ambedkar Nagar had requested his Mathura counterpart Babloo Kumar for nabbing them, the ASP said, adding the girls were rescued by the Highway Police.The police of Ambedkar Nagar is likely to reach here tonight."Both the girls and the youth, Prince, would be handed over to Ambedkar Nagar Police," the Singh said.Meanwhile, according to police of Ibrahimpur police station, both the accused youth have been booked under POCSO (Protection of Children from Sexual Offences) and SC/ST Acts, as both the girls are Dalit.According to police of Ibrahimpur police station hunt for Ankit is on.

19-year-old Bastar girl trafficked, sold for Rs 30k in UP, rescued

noreply@blogger.com (EMPOWER PEOPLE) — Tue, 5 Jul 2016 10:36:00 -0700

In yet another case of human trafficking in Chhattisgarh, a 19-year-old tribal girl who was sold off for Rs 30,000 in Uttar Pradesh was rescued by Bastar police following arrest of the woman agent who took her to Mathura luring the girl for an exertion with the help of another woman.The girl had walked out of her home after having a heated argument with the family and finding her alone at the roadside hotel, the woman agent trapped her.
The accused woman identified as Kalpana Mandal, 36, had sold off the girl hailing from Kondagaon district for marriage with an elderly man at Hathras district in Uttar Pradesh.
Kondagaon SP Santosh Singh told TOI that the girl was rescued and her condition was fine and hasn't complained of any sort of assault.Singh said that girl's parents had lodged a missing complaint on June 20 at village Kerawahi, suspecting trafficking in the case Kondagaon police constituted a team to trace the missing girl when they found her location at UP.Taking along the parents to identify the girl, the police team travelled to UP at a village called Kaji and rescued her safely on June 28 and brought back to Chhattisgarh on Sunday.The girl in her statement said that after having an argument in the family she absconded form home and was standing at highway near Kanker when the woman Kalpana approached her in a Bolero vehicle, Singh said.She spoke to the girl with sympathy and took her to Odsiha where she met another woman called Tina. They both brought her to Jagdalpur and stayed for two days when the girl expressed need to return home but in stead the women lured her for exertion to see temples at Mathura and took her to UP via train from Raipur.After selling her off to a man and collecting Rs 30,000, the duo returned.The tribal girl informed police about Kalpana and her address after which she was arrested and confessed to the crime while Tina is still at large. She was arrested under Section of 366, 368, 370 and 34 of the IPC.Meanwhile, it is suspected that Kalpana had been acting as conduit for traffickers at other states and might have sent many girls for slavery, marriage and prostitution. Police said that she was being interrogated for further leads.

Eight Mizoram girls rescued in the way to Gujarat

noreply@blogger.com (EP Admin) — Sun, 3 Jul 2016 07:24:00 -0700

Eight tribal girls from Mizoram were rescued from a car while being trafficked to Gujarat, two tribal youths were also arrested in this connection, They were rescued from a small vehicle on Saturday night while being trafficked to Gujarat via Guwahati, During interrogation the girls gave different versions about their journey. Seven of them are the inmates of refugee camps in Kanchanpur (in north Tripura) where tribals from Mizoram live. Another teen aged girl is a class nine student from Mizoram.

Their parents said they face acute poverty here. They were sending their daughters to Gujarat in search of jobs in beauty parlours. However, the parents could not give corroborative facts and other details. The girls were aged between 15 and 25 years while the two men are aged between 35 and 40.

when police inspector Ratanmani Debbarma said that to know the details the police have called the refugee leaders who said they were unaware of the girls’ journey.

About 31,300 Reang tribals, who call themselves ‘Bru’, have been living in seven makeshift camps for the past 19 years in Kanchanpur area adjoining Mizoram. They had fled ethnic violence in western Mizoram following the killing of a Mizo forest official at the Dampa Tiger Reserve. Despite several initiatives by the Mizoram government to bring them back, the refugees have been reluctant to go back to their villages unless their demands for food and security are met.

Meanwhile Gujarat is emerging as a destination of Bride trafficking.

Boyfriend kidnapped class XI girl and auctioned her for Rs. 70,000

noreply@blogger.com (EMPOWER PEOPLE) — Wed, 13 Jan 2016 04:55:00 -0800

Rampur Uttar Pradesh:

Mahesh Prasad, Patwai Police Station House Office informed that a student of class XI was kidnapped from her village and sold out for Rs. 70, 000 at an auction by her boyfriend. The girl was later recovered.

Talking to media, he said that three kidnappers from Badaun district, kidnapped the girl and kept her in a village for four days before auctioning her for Rs. 70,000.

On the reports of some of the residents the police raided the house of a former village Chief and recovered the girl from his house. Superintendent of Police of Sambhal District, Mr. Atul Saxena told that soon after received the information, police was sent to the villageand recovered the girl. However, the accused managed to escape from the village. Police registered an FIR.

Mr. Tariq Mohammed, Additional SP of Rampur District told that orders have been issued to arrest the accused. The girl is likely to be produced before the magistrate to enable her to record her statement.