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
Kolkata: US Secretary of State Hillary Clinton on Sunday met victims of human trafficking who narrated their ordeal to her and the NGOs working for them in her first engagement after her arrival in Kolkata in the first leg of her visit to the country. The 64-year-old US leader was also treated to a dance performance by survivors of sex trafficking. After watching the performance of the troupe of seven...
12:53 AM, May 07, 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
National Commission for Protection of Child Rights has decided to investigate the matter related to baby trafficking in UP government hospitals. ...
10:41 PM, Apr 13, 2012
An investigation by CNN-IBN and Cobrapost has revealed that a government hospital in Amroha sells children. ...
11:48 PM, Apr 12, 2012
New Delhi: An inter-state child trafficking racket was busted in New Delhi on Thursday and 15 children rescued. The children, in the age group of 9-15 years, were recovered from Old Delhi Railway Station. All the children are from Bihar and West Bengal. Most of the children belonged Kishenganj district of Bihar. They were being taken to Ludhiana in Punjab to work in a garment factory. Police got a tip...
01:44 PM, Apr 05, 2012
Panaji: Goa government has launched an inquiry after a state-run hospital was found employing children who were allegedly trafficked by criminals into the state. During a raid this week, the Goa State Commission for Protection of Child Rights (GSCPCR) had come across a 16-year-old boy from Bihar, who was purportedly sold in the state for Rs 15,000. The boy was working in a canteen of Goa medical college and hospital...
09:57 PM, Mar 30, 2012
New Delhi: The government on Tuesday told the Delhi High Court that it has prepared a draft legislation to regulate placement agencies in the city. The court was hearing a plea by NGO Bachpan Bachao Andolan that alleged that some of the placement agencies were indulging in trafficking of children. The division bench of Acting Chief Justice AK Sikri and Justice RS Endlaw told the government to speed up the...
02:29 AM, Mar 07, 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
Surat: Three people have been arrested for allegedly trying to buy a two-month-old infant girl for a sum of Rs 5000 in Surat. The trio, including a woman, tried to purchase the baby from a couple, who work as labourers. They claimed the baby would be handed over to Mumbai NGO that cares for under-priviledged babies. But when the NGO got wind of the scam, they informed the police. A...
09:34 AM, Feb 26, 2012
New Delhi: In a major breakthrough in the baby Falak case, the Delhi Police on Friday arrested the key accused, Rajkumar. The police managed to arrest the man while he was trying to flee the capital. Meanwhile, a woman named Pratima was also arrested. She was a part of the human trafficking racket that allegedly exploited the 14-year-old teenager who brought baby Falak to AIIMS in a battered and badly...
07:41 AM, Feb 11, 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
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