The National Investigation Agency (NIA) said on Sunday that the agency has arrested a key accused involved in illegally sending to the US, a human trafficking victim, through the ‘donkey route’.
The unfolding humanitarian crisis along the Thai-Myanmar border exposes the brutal reality of organised cyber crime and human trafficking in Southeast Asia.
Observed annually on 11 January, National Human Trafficking Awareness Day serves as an acute reminder of the global and national fight against one of the gravest human rights violations of our time.
Officials of both the West Bengal Police and Kolkata Police, probing the fake passport rackets in the state, are trying to track the links of these rackets with those involved in cross-border human trafficking, sources said.
The Enforcement Directorate (ED) has arrested two Bangladeshi nationals and one Indian for their alleged involvement in facilitating illegal infiltration and human trafficking into India.
Tripura police launched the operation after receiving credible intelligence about the illegal presence of foreign nationals in the city.
According to the central agency, search operations were conducted in collaboration with local police at multiple locations across six states and Union Territories.
A Child Welfare Committee member said they had received information that many children were being taken illegally from Araria and Purnia in Bihar to Deoband in Saharanpur.
The writer is a social activist who has been at the forefront of the fight against human trafficking and has led NGOs that have helped rescue hundreds of victims across India.
NGOs shared crucial inputs on the ground situation based on their experiences while working in the red light areas, and gave valuable suggestions to help the police in tackling the human trafficking issue.
