The main focus of EMPOWER PEOPLE lies on awareness raising and sensitization trainings for law enforcement agencies. The organization is also offering direct victim support and assistance to women vulnerable to human trafficking and domestic violence.BHIWANI: As vulnerable Haryana youths continue to be taken in by 'loot-and-scoot' brides, the government authorities are considering keeping a record of brides being brought to the state from other states. This would help the police to keep a tab on unscrupulous brides as well as to track gangs involved in human trafficking to protect innocent women and girls hailing from other states.According to reports, gangs involved in forcibly bringing girls as well as bands of cheat brides have been flourishing in Haryana, which has a wide gap between men in the marriageable age vis-a-vis women due to low sex ratio.In a recent incident, a 35-year-old man Kailash Kumar of Kungar village in Bhiwani district was lured by a woman who married him and then decamped with cash and jewellery from his home...
801 kids rescued from railway stations
HYDERABAD: Government Railway Police(GRP) have rescued 576 boys and 225 girls from various railway stations in the state in 2011. Additional director general (Railways) V S K Kaumudi, in an official release issued here on Tuesday, said besides the children, five women and 16 beggars were also rescued. Of the total people rescued, 750 were from various railway stations in Hyderabad. "In one case, a two-year-old girl was found abandoned in the washroom of Tungabhadra Express in Secunderabad on September 22, 2011. The girl was later shifted to Shishu Vihar. Her mother identified the child's photo flashed by the media and went to Shishu Vihar to take the baby," Kaumudi said. ...
Odisha tribal girls rescued from Bengaluru
Malkangiri (Odisha): Ten tribal girls of Odisha's Malkangiri district, who had been taken to Bengaluru and Chennai by a middleman on the pretext of lucrative jobs, have been rescued and brought back here, police said today. The tribal girls, aged between 13 and 16 years, were rescued from Bengaluru railway station by a special police team of Malkangiri and brought back here yesterday, inspector in charge of Malkangiri police station Ramakrushna Pati said.The girls, who hailed from Nalagunti, Sudhakonda and Telrai areas of Malkangiri district, had been taken by the middleman on January 19, he said adding the police team was sent to rescue them following an information by Bangalore police who spotted the girls at the station. The girls were produced before District Children Welfare...
Human (bride) trafficking a thriving business in Rajasthan
JAIPUR/ALWAR: Munni Devi, the woman who was picked up by the Delhi police from Rajasthan for abandoning a two-year-old battered baby, who is admitted to AIIMS Trauma Centre, was staying in a village in Jhunjhunu district for nearly three months. She was sold off to a man here for Rs 2.5 lakh by a human trafficking gang.Munni Devi is not an isolated case of girls being sold in the area. The two key suspects in the battered baby case- Rajkumar and Kanta Bai - have a case registered against them with the MIA police station in Alwar district."The case was registered in August 2010 in which both had been accused of selling a girl to someone," said a senior police officer. source"On August 16, one Ali Akbar from West Bengal had approached the then Alwar SP Alok Vashishta...
Bride-buying an old practice in north India
Bride-buying is an old practice in this region. It declined after the Green Revolution owing to the spread of literacy in this part of the country. Moreover, the male-female ratio has improved in the past 80 years. The ratio was highly skewed in 1911.
Before Partition there used to be Jind House at some distance from the railway station at Ambala. Adjacent to it was an “adda” where women were offered for sale after sunset. People from various parts of this region, especially the Malwa belt, used to flock to the “adda” to buy women or say “brides”.Dehra Dun was another centre where poor women were offered for sale. Besides, there was sale of women...
Two actors rescued from brothel
CHENNAI: Two supporting actresses wererescued from a brothel during a raid by anti-vice squad (AVS) sleuths in Vadapalani on Wednesday. A woman was arrested for running the racket. An AVS policeman posing as a customer first called up the pimp. After a deal was struck, the decoy was asked to come to a shopping complex in Vadapalani. He was then directed to a nearby house where Lakshmi (33) showed him two girls from Andhra Pradesh. Immediately, AVS sleuths in plainclothes caught hold of the woman and rescued the girls. The pimp and the two women had worked as junior artists in several movies, police said. Of late, they added, pimps were accommodating girls in ladies' hostels fearing raids in hotels and lodges. The arrested woman was remanded in judicial...
