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Thursday, September 4, 2025
TopicHuman trafficking

Topic: human trafficking

Delhi Police reunites 48 kidnapped children under ‘Operation Milap’

Police said the initiative, aimed at locating missing and kidnapped children and adults, involved extensive fieldwork, CCTV analysis, and intelligence gathering.

FIR based on ‘mere apprehension’—Kerala nuns walk out of Chhattisgarh jail after NIA court grants bail

The nuns were arrested on 25 July over a Bajrang Dal activist’s complaint, alleging forced religious conversion & human trafficking. The case had taken a political turn in Kerala.

This sex trafficking victim dreaded Valentine’s Day—’They expected something special’

In 'Awakening the Advocate’, Matthew S.Friedman recounts the stories and testimonials of trafficking victims, perpetrators and those combating the crisis.

NIA conducts raids at 22 locations in 6 states to probe human trafficking syndicate

The case, which was registered by police in Bihar’s Gopalganj, relates to an organised syndicate luring and trafficking Indian youth to foreign countries on the pretext of jobs.

Punjabi gangsters ferrying drugs, separatist terror to US an old story. Bishnoi, ‘Khatri’ not the first

Since Anmol Bishnoi was arrested this week in US, investigators are working to unpack a complex web of crime involving trafficking of migrants, drug cartels, assassins & Sikh separatists.

3 yrs after a Gujarati family froze to death at US-Canada border, 2 stand trial for human trafficking

Nearly 3 yrs ago, in January 2022, Jagdish Patel, his wife & 2 kids were found dead at the border, exposing an international trafficking racket. 2 accused are Harshkumar Patel, Steve Shand.

SubscriberWrites: The urgent fight against child trafficking

In India, the National Crime Records Bureau reported 2,878 cases of child trafficking in 2022 alone. However, this crisis is not limited to India; it is a global issue.

Over 1,100 Indians repatriated by US in a year, flight to Punjab last week had over 100 passengers

US Asst Secy for Border & Immigration Policy Royce Murray said this is not related to other judicial proceedings ongoing in US, when asked whether this had to do with Pannun case.

Vizag techies, MBAs chased visas. Landed in Cambodia’s Chinese-run digital slave camps

Lured by shady recruiters, many young graduates from Vizag are trafficked as foot soldiers in global cyber-crime rings. Their ‘job’: scamming Indians from compounds in Southeast Asia.

4 of Indian origin arrested in US for human trafficking. Victims ‘forced to do programming work’

Police in Texas have released information on a months-long investigation into an alleged human trafficking & forced labour operation involving over 100 people, half of them victims.

On Camera

Counter-insurgency is Indian military’s reality. Op Sindoor was brief flash in combat spectrum

The Chief of Defence Staff was spot on when he declared war fighting as ‘military’s bread and butter.’

GST 2.0: India streamlines indirect tax regime amid Trump tariffs & what it means for consumers

Goods and Services Tax Council paves way for a broad two-slab structure of 5% and 18% with a demerit rate of 40% for super luxury and 'sin' goods.

HAL team to visit US this month for talks on joint production of GE 414 engines

The engines are meant for Tejas Mk 2 and the first tranche of Advanced Medium Combat Aircraft (AMCA).

For Indian Mercedes, Asim Munir’s dumper truck in mirror is closer than it appears

From Munir’s point of view, a few bumps here and there is par for the course. He isn’t going to drive his dumper truck to its doom. He wants to use it as a weapon.