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human trafficking

Crime

Sawai Madhopur sex racket: Rajasthan Congress leader Poonam Chaudhary arrested

OpIndia Staff - 13 October, 2020

Three weeks after a sex racket scandal was exposed in the Sawai Madhopur district of Rajasthan, the police have apprehended the primary accused and Congress leader, Poonam Chaudhary

News Reports

17-year-old girl escapes human trafficking and walks 200 KMs to Hathras from Delhi

OpIndia Staff - 12 October, 2020

At least 12 girls from Madhya Pradesh were lured into travelling to Delhi by a man on the pretext of providing them with jobs

News Reports

Illegal immigrants and Pakistan-origin terrorists entering Europe via Bosnia: Reports

OpIndia Staff - 29 June, 2020

Around 3000 Pakistani nationals were fraudulently issued visas by the Bosnian embassy in Islamabad, as per the Bosnian border forces.

News Reports

Nearly 19,000 children sexually abused in England in the past year, child grooming remains largest form of abuse: Reports

OpIndia Staff - 3 January, 2020

Child grooming gangs remain active in England, the number of sexually abused children go up 6 times

News Reports

629 Pakistani girls ‘sold’ as brides to Chinese men: AP news report

OpIndia Staff - 4 December, 2019

There is a growing demand for foreign brides in China owing to its draconian one-child policy that skewed the country's population with 34 million more men than women

Crime

Hyderabad: NIA registers first human trafficking case, arrests three on accusation of sexually exploiting Bangladeshi women

OpIndia Staff - 20 September, 2019

The three are accused of being involved in illegal trafficking of Bangladeshi women to Hyderabad and sexually exploiting them.

News Reports

Three weeks after Jalil Sheikh killed wife for refusing to get into prostitution, Delhi police nab him from West Bengal

OpIndia Staff - 31 August, 2019

The accused has been previously arrested in a human trafficking case in West Bengal

News Reports

Jharkhand police arrests human trafficking kingpin Panna Lal Mahto who had trafficked at least 5,000 children

OpIndia Staff - 20 July, 2019

Mahto and his wife Sunita Kumari was earlier arrested in October 2014 on the charges of human trafficking. He has been out on bail since September 2016.

News Reports

Pakistani Christian brides forced into prostitution in China, trafficking rackets targeting poor Christians in Pakistan

OpIndia Staff - 15 July, 2019

Activists in Pakistan claim that hundreds of poor Pakistani Christian woman are married to Chinese men, with promises of a comfortable life, only to be trafficked and forced into prostitution later.

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