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TopicHuman trafficking

Topic: human trafficking

Inside an inter-state child trafficking racket: Fake adoptions, ‘middle-class’ agents & ‘7 lakh for a boy’

Busted by Delhi Police, the racket was spread across Uttar Pradesh, Uttarakhand, and Delhi. Six kidnapped children have been rescued from the gang.

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.

On Camera

Moon madness has taken over modern dating. A waning crescent is the best time to ghost

Alongside buying into the grift that is dating apps, the girlies are also installing astrology apps like Astrotalk to investigate the same tired mystery—will he ever text back?

Africa’s blue economy is booming. What it can learn from Asia

Aquaculture is the fastest growing food sector in Africa, offering significant returns on investment for all involved and achieving the continent’s goals for food security, dignified livelihoods and economic growth.

‘Let them see’: Putin says new nuclear-powered missiles in the making, in message to Washington

At a ceremony felicitating Russian military engineers, Putin highlights Moscow’s 'parity' in defence technologies for the next century.

Bihar is where politics moves, and everything else stands still

Bihar is blessed with a land more fertile for revolutions than any in India. Why has it fallen so far behind then? Constant obsession with politics is at the root of its destruction.