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Antitrafficking Project Aasara
Police rescue 41 girls from sex trade
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 Police rescue 41 girls from sex trade
Uma Sudhir
Monday, January 29, 2007 (Warangal/Yavatmal):
The Andhra Pradesh police rescued 41 women, who had been forced into the sex trade, from Yavatmal district of Maharashtra.
A dozen minors were among the women rescued during raids by anti-trafficking teams."Very young girls are being lured and trapped by brokers into this trade," said Ravi Gupta, DIG, Warangal Range.
Sixteen-year-old Jyothi who went two years ago to work as domestic help in Mumbai, was sold three times by three different brokers in Mumbai, Pune and Yavatmal.
"We have arrested five traffickers. The main one among them is Padma and the second one is Parveen," said Mahesh Bhagwat, CID-SP, Women's Protection Cell.
It is an open secret that girls and women from Andhra Pradesh are highest in numbers in the brothels of Mumbai, Pune and Goa.While a traditional sex market has been in operation in coastal Andhra Pradesh, the worrying aspect is the huge numbers being trafficked from agency areas of Khammam, Visakhapatnam and other backward regions.
THE TIMES OF INDIA
Human trafficking: India on US watch list
[ 23 Jan, 2007 1103hrs IST IANS ]
WASHINGTON: India
figures among 39 countries placed on a US
"special watch list" of nations deemed to warrant special scrutiny
of their anti-trafficking efforts under a 2003 US law.
The government of India has made some progress in
combating its significant problem of human trafficking since the release of a
Trafficking in Persons (TIP) report for 2006, the state department said while
releasing an interim assessment of these countries for 2007.
However, the government still needs to go
further in designating and empowering a national agency or office,
specifically tasked with carrying out an effective law enforcement response to
trafficking crimes committed throughout India, it said.
Some of these countries could be downgraded to
the lowest "Tier 3" - countries whose governments do not fully
comply with the minimum standards under US Trafficking Victims Protection
Reauthorisation Act (TVPRA) of 2003 - in the upcoming June 2007 TIP report if
their anti-trafficking efforts this year are determined to be inadequate, it
warned.
Besides India,
the 2007 interim assessment covers Algeria,
Argentina, Armenia, Bahrain,
Belize, Bolivia, Brazil,
Cambodia, Central African Republic, China, Cyprus,
Djibouti, Ecuador, Egypt,
Equatorial Guinea, Finland, Indonesia,
Israel, Jamaica, Kenya,
Kuwait, Laos, Libya,
Macau, Malawi,
Malaysia, Mauritania, Mexico,
Oman, Peru, Qatar,
Russia, Singapore, South
Africa, Switzerland,
Taiwan, Togo, and the United Arab Emirates.
On India,
the interim assessment said that despite estimates of a significant debt
bondage situation in the country, New
Delhi reported no arrests, prosecutions, or
convictions of employers using bonded labour. Similarly, it did not provide
evidence of any rescues of bonded labour victims.
India, however, did make moderate progress on addressing
child labour between September and November. Delhi Police rescued 140 children
working in zari factories and rice mills, but it is unclear how these children
have been rehabilitated.
In October, the government also enacted a ban
on the employment of children in domestic work or the hospitality industry
with penalties including three months to two years incarceration and the
possibility of fines, it noted.
Referring to India's anti-trafficking efforts,
the interim report said that in September 2006, the Indian government
responded to the need for a central anti-trafficking law enforcement effort by
creating a two-person federal "nodal cell" responsible for
collecting and analysing data of state-level law enforcement efforts
The cell is responsible for
identifying problem areas and analysing the circumstances creating these areas
and monitoring action taken by state governments for combating trafficking in
these areas. It is also to organise coordination meetings with nodal police
officers of the states.
The government has provided significant in-kind
contributions to a two-year programme by the US
government funded United Nations Office of Drugs and Crime (UNODC) in
Maharashtra, Goa, West Bengal, and Andhra
Pradesh. The programme focuses on raising the awareness of police and
prosecutors on the problem of trafficking and to build their capacity to
investigate and prosecute people involved with trafficking, it said.
But law enforcement activity to combat human
trafficking remains confined to the state level and continues to be relatively
low in comparison to the estimated extent of the situation.
However, in June, two former state ministers in
Jammu and Kashmir
were arrested for trafficking in minor girls for commercial sexual
exploitation, along with other senior government officials. Two traffickers in
Delhi were
also convicted and sentenced to three and seven years in prison, and another
was arrested in August, it said.
In November 2006, the parliamentary committee
returned the amendments to the Immoral Trafficking Prevention Act to the
ministry of women and child development for revision.
The committee asked the ministry to clarify
language, provide a clearer delineation between criminals and victims,
prioritise programmes and resources for expanded rehabilitation and
reintegration efforts, and recommended passage of the bill with those changes,
the interim report noted.
http://timesofindia.indiatimes.com/NEWS/World/The_United_States/Human_trafficking_India_on_US_watch_list/articleshow/msid-1393443,curpg-1.cmsIt's not the activity of rascals that destroys our society but inactivity of good people.
Shiv Khera
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 28/01/2007 Date:28/01/2007 URL: http://www.thehindu.com/2007/01/28/stories/2007012804670500.htm -------------------------------------------------------------------------------- Andhra Pradesh - Khammam 41 State girls rescued from brothels in Maharashtra
Staff Reporter Flesh trade racket busted KHAMMAM: In a major operation monitored jointly by the Khammam police, the Women Protection Cell and the CID, special teams raided brothel houses at Wani of Yeotmal district in Maharashtra and rescued 41 girls from the State. They included 15 victims from Khammam district alone while 10 of the rescued girls were minors. The Khammam Superintendent of Police, Rajiv Kumar Meena said here today that five persons indulging in flesh trade and organising brothel houses were arrested in the raids. They included Shaik Parveen, Rani, Baliram Singh Tagore, Nakka Padma- all residents of Khammam district and Rathamma of Warangal. One more person- Nakka Ramu alleged to be party to the racket was absconding. Medical aid Some of the girls rescued in the operation belonged to Kurnool, Guntur, Krishna, Nalgonda, Nizamabad, Ranga Reddy and Adilabad districts. Four girls who belonged to Maharashtra were handed over to the Yeotmal Police. The victims were being provided medical aid and rehabilitation. The Superintendent of Police said that the flesh trade racket was busted with the information furnished by a minor girl, Jyothi from Palvancha town. The girl who was missing for the past two years, was rescued from another brothel house in Pune recently. Padma from Palvancha town picked up the girl promising employment and sold her to Parveen at Warli. Parveen in turn sold the girl to one Swapna five months ago. A case was booked in Palvancha police station on a complaint lodged by the victims father. © Copyright 2000 - 2006 The Hindu 
News Update Service
Thursday, January 11, 2007 : 1030 Hrs
28 women rescued in anti-trafficking operation
Hyderabad, Jan. 11 (PTI): Twenty-eight women, including five minors, were rescued during a joint anti-trafficking operation launched by Andhra Pradesh and Maharashtra Police at Bhiwandi in Thane district.
The victims of commercial sexual exploitation and trafficking hailed from Andhra Pradesh, Karnataka, West Bengal, Uttar Pradesh and Maharashtra and Nepal, Additional Director General of Police (CID), M Ratan, told reporters here Wednesday.
He said nine traffickers were arrested and five of them belonged to Andhra Pradesh. Three victims also hail from that state.
A 75-strong force comprising police personnel of the two States raided Hanuman Tekadi area at Bhiwandi on January 5 after a complaint was filed by a victim, Ratan said.
Superintendent of Police (Women Protection Cell), M M Bhagwat, who led the 20-member police force from Maharashtra, said the three women from Andhra Pradesh will be rehabilitated under the Aasra scheme launched to aid sex workers.
DIG (Women Protection Cell), Umpati, who was also present at the press conference, said a search was underway for 500 traffickers from Andhra Pradesh who indulged in commercial sexual exploitation in other parts of the country.
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Andhra Pradesh - Hyderabad
Date:11/01/2007
CID team rescues 28 victims of sex rackets
Special Correspondent
Raids conducted on brothels in Bhiwandi near Mumbai over a month
HYDERABAD: A team of the Crime Investigation Department (CID) has rescued 28 victims of sex rackets belonging to Andhra Pradesh from brothels in the powerloom-rich Bhiwandi town near Mumbai. They include five minor girls. They were among the 39 women who were traced out by the CID in raids on brothels in Bhiwandi during the last one month, the Additional Director-General of CID, M. Ratan, told news persons here on Wednesday.
He said a team of the CID from the State coordinated with the local police of Bhiwandi last week in checking 400 brothels in localities where powerlooms were operated. The entire area of Hanuman Tekdi was cordoned off for an hour in the evening when there was a power breakdown. The raids continued with the help of torches and candles. Seventy local policemen assisted the operation.
Nine arrested
Mr. Ratan also said that nine traffickers who took women from various districts of the State with the promise of employment were arrested. Five of them were from Rayachoti. They were being booked under non-bailable provisions of Indian Penal Code. He also said the team was sent to Bhiwandi after a girl escaped from the clutches of a brothel keeper and lodged a complaint with police at Kadiri in Anantapur. This was the first time that a major operation to flush out commercial sex workers was launched in the communally sensitive Bhiwandi. Raids were also conducted at Guntur, Vizag and Eluru
URL: http://www.thehindu.com/2007/01/11/stories/2007011120860500.htm
It's not the activity of rascals that destroys our society but inactivity of good people.
Shiv Khera
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