Kollam: Over 150 Sri Lankan refugees have been detained from a boat near the Kollam coast. The refugees include 19 women and 22 children. The police say they paid between Rs 1 lakh to Rs 5 lakh to an agent who promised to take them to Australia but brought them to India instead allegedly for trafficking. The agent is now absconding along with the boat's driver and a helper. All...
09:38 AM, Jun 04, 2012
London: Scotland Yard on Friday charged four Indian citizens and two Ghana citizens of Indian-origin all based in London for allegedly trafficking a woman from Hyderabad for sex. Official sources confirmed that four of the suspects were Indian citizens while two were Ghana citizens of Indian-origin. The six suspects include a computer professional, an optician, a butcher, a supermarket manager and a secretary, they said. The four Indians are "...
10:18 PM, May 18, 2012
Morena: In a case of human trafficking, a widow was allegedly sold by three persons, including a woman, for Rs 60,000 to a Rajasthan-based man, police said on Thursday. Seema Parihar, a resident of Keshav colony in Morena was taken to Rajasthan by her acquaintance Vijay Singh Rawat under the pretext of visiting Kaila Devi temple but he sold her there to one Kalli Meena of Kaseda village in Karauli...
06:39 PM, May 03, 2012
New Delhi: Two-year-old girl child Falak, who was brought to hospital in a battered state two months back, was on Friday shifted from an ICU to the children's ward after doctors at AIIMS found her medical condition stable. Doctors at the AIIMS Trauma Centre, attending on her since the past 45 days, also said Falak will be discharged soon if she continues to show improvement in her medical condition. "We...
09:40 PM, Mar 02, 2012
New Delhi: Two-year-old Falak was taken off the ventilator on Friday and the doctors at AIIMS say the baby girl has shown marginal improvement in last 24 hours. But the survival chances are dimming for Falak. The two year old's chest infection has been cured. Dr Deepak Agarwal said "If the situation worsens again, we will put her back on it." It has been three weeks since she was abandoned...
04:57 PM, Feb 10, 2012
New Delhi: Taking serious note of plight of two-year-old baby Falak, the Union Home Ministry on Tuesday sought a report from the Delhi Police and termed it as a case of human trafficking. "It is a case of human trafficking. We are seeking report from the Delhi Police," Additional Secretary in the Home Ministry B Bhamathi said. Bhamathi said the Delhi Police was probing the case to find out the...
06:38 PM, Feb 07, 2012
New Delhi: Actor Anil Kapoor is keen on acting in a movie that deals with the issue of human trafficking. Kapoor has been serving as an ambassador of CNN's Freedom Project that is slated to release a documentary on human trafficking. The documentary titled 'Trapped by Tradition' sees Kapoor going to Bharatpur, a small district in Rajasthan, meeting the villagers and trying to know how girls and women are sold...
12:03 PM, Sep 20, 2011
New Delhi: For the first time, leading producers of South Asian countries have decided to join hands and put in their money to make a feature film on a major issue afflicting them all human trafficking. An agreement for making the film, to be directed by young Rakesh Mehta whose debut film 'Khudakhushi' wowed critics at several international festivals last year, was signed on the concluding day of the South...
11:48 AM, Sep 19, 2011
Varanasi: Minor girls being sold for sex trafficking in the holy city of Varanasi, but Ajeet Singh decided to take on the police-pimp nexus. Girls, as young as 10 years of age, are bought and sold. "Right from the moment a girl is trafficked and brought into a red light area, the rate is fixed. For every new girl they will get Rs 1 lakh to 50000 and we let...
09:07 AM, Aug 03, 2011
New Delhi: Another sex scandal has rocked Kerala. A man has been arrested for trying to sell his daughter to the sex trade in Kothamangalam. Police said the fourteen-year-old victim was sexually exploited in cars and autorickshaws for the past three months. The police were tipped off by an anonymous caller and it was then that they nabbed the girl's father. Two other men were also arrested in the case....
08:14 AM, Jul 04, 2011
New Delhi: The CBI on Thursday busted an illegal human trafficking racket allegedly run by a Delhi-based politician, who contested 2008 Assembly elections on Samajwadi party ticket here, in collusion with some government officials including a Home Ministry official. The agency carried out searches at nearly 38 residential and official premises of recruiting agent Waseem Ahmed Gazi, officials, and other people allegedly involved in the racket. During the searches, spread...
09:49 PM, Apr 21, 2011
Houston: Lawyers for a group of Indian guest workers, trafficked to the US from India to work in ship yards after Hurricane Katrina in 2005, have sued an American company, Signal International, along with its co- conspirators and other entities for human trafficking and racketeering. If class status is granted, the lawsuit could be the largest human trafficking case in US history, the American Civil Liberties Union (ACLU) has said...
05:09 PM, Feb 22, 2011
Gujarat legislator accused of trafficking illegal immigrants. ...
06:37 PM, Oct 20, 2008
200 Indians busted in Belgium in an EU human smuggling racket. ...
04:51 PM, Oct 19, 2008
The 18-year-old girl was taken away from her village on pretext of marriage. ...
05:36 PM, Sep 22, 2008
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