JOIN USThe horror narrated by the minor girl again shows that the capital has turned out to be a hub of trafficking of girls and women from different parts of the country.
According to the National Crime Records Bureau, 368 girls and women were kidnapped across the country last year for prostitution.
They are sold to brothels or made to end up in massage parlours, social activists say.
Rakesh Senger, National Secretary of NGO Bachpan Bachao Andolan, says that most children who go missing end up in traffickers’ hands.
“Organised gangs kidnap minors and transport them to other cities for prostitution. Children below eight years are forced into begging, while the older ones are pushed into child labour,” said Rakesh Senger, National Secretary of NGO Bachpan Bachao Andolan.
No sign of abatement
Trafficking of young girls from countries like Nepal and Bangladesh for forced prostitution also shows no signs of abatement, claims a study conducted by Global March Against Child Labour.
The study titled ‘Economics Behind Forced Labour Trafficking’ was spearheaded by Nobel Peace Prize winner and child rights activist Kailash Satyarthi.
In a similar case last month, after 13 years of repeated assault, a 25-year-old woman from Assam had succeeded in escaping from the clutches of traffickers who kept her in confinement in Haryana’s Rohtak district.
She had escaped from the house to reach Delhi and approached Rajouri Garden police station with the help of a well-wisher.
The issue of human trafficking and missing children was also discussed during an inter-state coordination meeting held between senior officers of Delhi Police and their counterparts from Haryana, Punjab, Himachal Pradesh, Uttar Pradesh, Uttrakhand, Rajasthan, Bihar and Jammu and Kashmir on Wednesday.
They have decided to share technology in policing and upload details of missing persons on Zonal Integrated Police Network (ZIPNET) without loss of time.
“Delhi Police Commissioner Bhim Sain Bassi has also told district police to revive the anti-human trafficking cell, while the special cell and crime branch have also been asked to form such cells,” said a police officer.
DH News Service