1500 Assam kids missing in a year
Guwahati, March 27: Over 1,500 children have disappeared from Assam between 2011 and 2012, and most are now living in subhuman conditions somewhere in north India, as prostitutes, domestic helps or underage wives in women-starved states. According to the latest data of the State Crime Records Bureau, altogether 1,071 female and 494 male children have gone missing in Assam in 2011-2012, the highest in the Northeast.
The crime records also revealed that during this period, 965 missing children, including 283 male and 682 female, have been traced. This means that as on March 15, 2012, 211 male children and 389 female children have remained untraced in the state.
According to Unicef, a child victim of trafficking is “any person under 18 who is recruited, transported, transferred, harboured or received for the purpose of exploitation, either within or outside a country”.
Rishi Kant of Shakti Vahini, a Delhi-based NGO working on anti-trafficking projects, said in Assam, the human trafficking situation in general and child trafficking in particular is highly alarming. “Mostly children and women are being trafficked from Assam for prostitution, forced marriages as well as to be employed as domestic helps in north India, including states like Delhi and Haryana,” he said. According to him, the role of illegally-run placement agencies is a big concern. Recently, 22 girls were rescued jointly by Shakti Vahini and Assam police from the premises of one such placement agency in Delhi.
“The placement agencies are involved in trafficking of children and exploit them physically and mentally,” he said.
The victims are being trafficked with the lure of job or money. A police source here said the rising demand for live-in maids in urban areas has resulted in trafficking of girls from villages in Assam, Bengal, Jharkhand and Chhattisgarh.
The trafficked children are forced to live under extremely poor conditions first in “placement agencies” and later in the employers’ homes. Placement agents keep the girls in small unhygienic rooms, packed together. They are often made to do the placement agent’s household work and also subjected to sexual abuse.
Citing the State Crime Records Bureau figures, Kant said trafficking of adults is also high in Assam compared to other states in the region. In 2011-12, 687 men and 1,234 women went missing from the state. Of them, 331 men and 389 women are yet to be traced.
“Trafficking of young girls from rural areas in Assam to Haryana for forced marriage is the ramification of the skewed sex ratio in Haryana,” Kant said.
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Indian girls rescued from bride trafficking
NITA BHALLA IN TRUST LAW
NEW DELHI (TrustLaw) – Two minor girls, who were being trafficked from other parts of India to be sold as brides, have been rescued in two separate incidents by police in New Delhi, the Times of India reported on Tuesday. According to the report, a 16-year-old girl from the central region of Madhya Pradesh was sold by her uncle for 90,000 rupees ($1,800) to a truck driver whom she was forced to marry.
While in another incident, a 13-year-old girl from the eastern state of West Bengal, was trafficked to the capital and was in the process of being sold as a wife. Social workers say girls from poor regions of India are increasingly being trafficked as brides to areas where there are a declining number of women, due to the illegal but widespread practice of female foeticide.
“Recent raids have thrown light on the trafficking of girl children to Haryana – with Delhi as the transit point,” Rishikant, coordinator of a women’s charity Shakti Vahini, is quoted as saying. “Girls from Bihar, Orissa, West Bengal, Chhattisgarh and Chandigarh are brought here with almost no scope of returning.”
http://www.trust.org/trustlaw/news/indian-girls-rescued-from-bride-trafficking
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Bride trafficking: 2 minors rescued, three held
Bride trafficking: 2 minors rescued, three held
NEW DELHI: Two minor girls – brought to the capital to be sold off as brides in Haryana – have been rescued by the police in the past two weeks. Haryana has been in the news for the rampant trafficking of girl children, all thanks to its skewed sex ratio.
In the first incident, a 16-year-old girl, a native of Betul district of Madhya Pradesh, was rescued from the Jind railway station. She was found in a traumatised condition by the GRP. Her uncle, Ramesh, had sold her to Ved Prakash, a truck driver, against a payment of Rs 90,000. However, she fled from his house on October 22. She told the cops that she was married against her wishes and wanted to return to her native village. After her medical examination, the girl was given shelter at Karnal Nariniketan.
Though the Madhya Pradesh police has arrested Ramesh, Ved Prakash is still at large. Fresh raids are being conducted in Madhya Pradesh to nab the local traffickers. In the second incident, a 13-year-old girl from Santhal in West Bengal was forcefully brought to Delhi and employed as a domestic help in Janakpuri, at the house of Nirja Bhaskar. The girl’s family had urged Nirja to let the girl return home but Nirja refused to comply. Instead, she demanded that the family cough up a sum of Rs 16,000 which she had paid to the placement agency. However, Nirja was tracked down by the NGO Shakti Vahini and the girl was rescued.
The girl was brought to the capital by Pina Roy and Rina Hemram – both in the police net – three months back. After reaching Delhi she stayed in Sangam Vihar with Rina where she was often beaten up by Rina’s husband. She made umpteen requests to go back home but the couple employed her as a domestic help. Later, she worked somewhere else. After suffering untold misery at the hands of her new employer, she ran away to Sangam Vihar. There she came in contact with another person from Bengal who used her as a bonded labourer and was planning to sell her as a child bride.
”Recent raids have thrown light on the trafficking of girl children to Haryana – with Delhi as the transit point. Girls from Bihar, Orissa, West Bengal, Chattisgarh and Chandigarh are brought here with almost no scope of returning. We are planning a nationwide drive to address the problem,” said Rishi kant, coordinator, Shakti Vahini.
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Sold off as ‘bride’, teen rescued from Haryana village
DWIPAYAN GHOSH / TIMES OF INDIA
Delhi: A 14-year-old girl from Assam was rescued from a Haryana village in a joint operation by cops from the city and Haryana and NGO Shakti Vahini. The rescuers overcame stiff resistance by the villagers, who claimed their “daughter-in-law” was five months pregnant. According to Rishi Kant of Shakti Vahini, Shabnam (name changed) was lured out of Assam by someone, who promised to marry her. He brought her to Delhi and sold her off to one Rakesh for Rs 25,000 at a Daryaganj hotel. She was then taken to Shahpur village of Jind district. “Rakesh married her forcibly and subjected her to the worst form of slavery. She would perform household chores the whole day; and at night, Rakesh would torment her sexually,” said Rishi.
Earlier, the girl’s family had lodged a missing complaint with the Hajo police station in Assam on May 3. “One day, I read in the local newspaper that an Assamese girl was rescued in Delhi. Instantly, my wife and I came to Delhi and got in touch with the Child Welfare Committee. They told us that the rescued girl was not my daughter. Then one of the committee members gave me the contact number of Shakti Vahini and I approached them,” said Shabnam’s father. Meanwhile, the anti-human trafficking unit of Assam Police also contacted Shakti Vahini and requested them to assist the parents of the girl. The NGO then contacted the anti-human trafficking unit of Haryana Police. The girl was traced to Shahpur village and rescued. She was then taken for medical examination, where it was confirmed that she is five months pregnant.
“The girl was later produced before the SDM, Jind district, who sent her to the Nari Niketan at Karnal. Her parents were asked to produce documents to prove that they are her parents. An Assam Police team has arrived in the capital for further investigations and also facilitate the repatriation process of the victim,” said a Haryana Police officer.
“Her parents are in Jind, but the district administration has made it clear that it doubts that the family itself had sold her off. The girl has, however, expressed willingness to return home. We have lodged an FIR under sections 366A and 346 of the IPC. We will get her back,” said an Assam Police officer. Meanwhile, experts said trafficking in Haryana for forced marriages has reached an alarming proportions.
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Assam girl rescued from Jind village
Assam girl rescued from Jind village
THE TRIBUNE CHANDIGARH / Jind, October 5
The local police has rescued an 18-year-old Assam girl from Shahpur village in the district. The rescue followed after the police was told that the girl had been a victim of human trafficking and sold for forced marriage. The victim has been found pregnant.
“The girl was abducted from Kamroop in Assam five months ago on pretext of a job but was sold to a person from Nidana village in the district for Rs 25,000 after three weeks of stay in Delhi,” claimed Rishi Kant , spokesperson of Shakti Vahini, an NGO, which played an instrumental role in tracking the victim and coordinating with her family members.
Claiming that it was one of the several cases of human trafficking that took place in the state, he said majority of the victims were poor and unable to communicate in the local dialect
Alleging that two persons, Raju and Rahul, were the main accused in the case who brought the girl to Delhi and then to Haryana, Rishi Kant said the victim was sold again a few weeks back to another resident of Shahpur village for Rs 60,000. The girl was rescued from a house of Nawab of Shahpur on Monday night after the NGO informed the police. The person who was keeping her in the house as his wife, however, managed to escape. She will be soon handed over to her family after some legal formalities, the police said.
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Girl from Hajo rescued in Haryana
SPL CORRESPONDENT / NORTH EAST TRIBUNE
NEW DELHI, Oct 4 – A minor Assamese girl hailing from Hajo was rescued from Shahpur village of Jind district in Haryana on Monday.
The 17-year-old girl, who was forced to change her religion, was rescued by a joint team of Haryana Police and the non-government organisation Shakti Vahini. She was lured by one person in Assam on the pretext of marrying her. He brought her to Delhi and sold to one Rakesh of Jind for Rs 25,000, according to Rishi Kant of Shakti Vahini. Rakesh married her forcefully and she was allegedly subjected to slavery.
The victim’s family reported that she had gone missing from her house on April 25. They approached the Hajo Police Station in May. The Anti-Human Trafficking Unit Assam Police informed Shakti Vahini to assist the parents of the trafficked victim to rescue their daughter. A team of Shakti Vahini got in touch with Anti-Human Trafficking Unit of Haryana Police. With the help of Jind Police, the victim was located in Shahpur village. Preliminary enquiries revealed that the girl was five months’ pregnant. The victim has indicated that she wanted to go back home, as she has been forced into marriage.
After the medical examination, the girl was produced before the SDM, Jind district and the victim has been sent to the Nari Niketan, Karnal. The victim’s parents were asked to produce authentic documents to prove their real parenthood. A team of Assam Police is on its way to Haryana to investigate the matter. The girl’s parents have also reached Jind.
According to Advocate Ravi Kant, President, Shakti Vahini, the situation is alarming. Trafficking for forced marriage is the ramification of the skewed sex ratio in Haryana. It is to be noted that skewed sex ratio is leading to trafficking of women and children from the north-eastern region.
http://www.assamtribune.com/scripts/detailsnew.asp?id=oct0511/at09
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13 Traffickers Arrested, 4 rescued in a week
The ramifications of female foeticide in Haryana i.e. buying girls for forced marriage is in its peak as the cops arrested 13 traffickers from Haryana in a period of one week and rescued four victims.
On September 21, 2011 The City PS Sirsa, Haryana busted a sex racket in Prem Nagar area. Four persons have been arrested including Two women trafficked from Nadia District, West Bengal and Delhi. The gang used to bring girls from Eastern states and involve them in Prostitution and forced marriage.
A case was registered u/s 3/4/5/6 of Immoral Trafficking Prevention Act. The FIR number is 730/11. The police said preliminary interrogation revealed that Ramesh Bhatia, a resident of Kirti Nagar, used to bring girls from Kolkatta and Delhi for supply to Dharmender Saini, a resident of Chatargarh Patti. Saini, in turn, supplied these girls to brothels functioning in some residential areas of the town and to farmhouses of influential persons.
The two women Pooja and Sonali had been brought here about a month ago on the monthly “remuneration” of Rs 60,000 each, said sources.
On September 19, the Seelampur police arrested a 14 year old girl from the clutches of the trafficking gang run by two women in their late 40s. According to the complaint made by the victim’s father a case of kidnapping was registered in the Seelampur Police Station. The technical surveillance led the police team in Karnak and Kurukshetra where the girl was rescued and two traffickers Sanjida (45) and Ashuya (49) were arrested. The trafficker lured the victim on the pretext of offering her a cold drink when she lost her way to home from Khajuri Khas. The girl was then forcibly taken to Shahbad to Ashiya. Ashiya sold her to a customer for Rs.70,000.
One of the traffickers Sajida said that her husband Jaipal was also involved in the human trafficking. He had sold more than 12 girls as brides in Haryana. The woman also said that there is high demand of girls in Haryana because of the low sex ratio. Her husband was murdered five months ago by her her step son. Then involve herself in this illegal profession.
On September 12, a team of Mizoram Police, Shakti Vahini NGO and CHAN NGO from Mizoram rescued one minor girl from Rewari District Haryana and arrested 6 traffickers. The prime accused of the case the BSF Jawan Satyawan was arrested in Mizoram.
During counseling the victim it was revealed that on 6th June, 2011 Satyawan, BSF personnel of SHQ, Aizawl, Mizoram dispatched the victim to his home village Rotwal, Alwar District, Rajasthan via Guwahati (Assam). He handed her Rs. 3,000/- (Rupees three thousand) only for her journey expenses. The girl arrived New Delhi Railway Station and was received by Raju Yadav who is a brother of Satyawan Yadav. Raju in connivance with other accomplices sold the victim for sexual exploitation at Rs. 90,000/- (Rupees ninety thousand) only. Satyawan who availed leave also reached his home village Rotwal. He was paid Rs. 50,000/- (Rupees fifty thousand) only out of the sale of the girl.
It was also revealed that the victim had been seduced and exploited by the BSF personnel Satyawan posted at BSF Sector Hqrs. Durtlang, Aizawl, Mizoram. BSF Hqrs and residence of victim girl are close by at the same locality of Durtlang North, Aizawl. Mobile phone contacts made by unidentified callers to the family members of the victim traced the callers to Haryana and Rajasthan. BSF personnel Satyawan had availed leave w.e.f. 9th June, 2011. His past acquaintance with the victim and the coincidence of his leave with the disappearance of the victim pose a strong suspicion on the involvement of Satyawan on the disappearance of Sonia.
In yet another incidence two traffickers were arrested by Delhi Police and rescued one victim from Haryana. The victim was kidnapped from Seelampur in September. The girl had been sold to a farmer in Haryana for Rs.70,000. The gang involved in this case used abduct minor girls and sell them off in Haryana as brides. The victims are subjected to do house hold works in the day and to become the sexual slaves in nights.
According to Adv. Ravi Kant, President Shakti Vahini, “The situation is highly alarming. Trafficking for forced marriage is the ramification of the skewed sex ratio in Haryana.”
He added “the female foeticide in Haryana on one hand, if it is killing several innocent lives before they open the eyes, on the other it is causing serious gender imbalance which finally is devastating the lives of equally other who have been lucky enough to see this world. Like breeds the like, the evil of killing females in womb is giving rise to a chain of several other social evils like trafficking of which the female gender is at the receiving end. Due to the fall in sex ratio people are facing the shortage of Brides and for this they are resorting to trafficking to get their sons married. Recently several cases of Human Trafficking have been reported from Haryana.”
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NE trafficking victim rescued from Haryana
A SHAKTI VAHINI – NATIONAL LEGAL RESEARCH DESK INITIATIVE
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NEW DELHI, Sept 15 – In yet another case of human trafficking involving a girl from the North-east has come to light, with security forces rescuing a minor girl hailing from Mizoram from the traffickers in Rewari district of Haryana. A Border Security Force (BSF) personnel trafficked the girl.
In a joint rescue operation conducted by Mizoram Police, Delhi-based NGO Shakti Vahini and a Mizoram-based NGO, CHAN rescued the girl and apprehended five traffickers. They were identified as Dinesh Kumar Yadav, Ram Yadav, Dharamvir Yadav, Jile, Mahinder Singh.
During counselling it was revealed that on June 6, Satyawan, a BSF personnel of SHQ, Aizawl, dispatched the girl to his home village Rotwal, Alwar district, Rajasthan via Guwahati. The girl was received by Raju Yadav who is a brother of Satyawan Yadav.
Raju in connivance with other accomplices sold the victim for Rs. 90,000. Satyawan who availed leave also reached his home village Rotwal. He was paid Rs 50,000. On learning that a criminal case was registered at Aizawl, in connection with the missing of the girl, her captors decided to kill her. However, Dharamvir Yadav who was contracted to kill her sold her to Ram Yadav and his son Dinesh Kumar Yadav for a false marriage for Rs. 50,000.
The rescue team raided the house of Ram Yadav in Rewari, Haryana on the night of September 12, and rescued the victim and her captors were arrested, Ravi Kant, who led the team of NGOs, said the victim has been produced before the chairperson, Child Welfare Committee. The CWC ordered for reproducing the girl before the CWC Aizwal. Mizoram Police were given 10 days transit remand for the accused.
The Mizoram Police team and NGOs Shakti Vahini, Delhi and CHAN, Mizoram are camping at Haryana and Rajasthan for further pursuance of the investigations.
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