As a social service organization, you may have encountered victims of trafficking without realizing their circumstances, and therefore, have lost a chance to help them escape a horrific situation.
Human trafficking is cloaked in darkness, confusion, fear, misunderstanding and control and many who try to take action, feel overwhelmed by the size of the task.
Bride trafficking is a new phenomenon in India. Countries like china and korea are well aware of this phenomenon. Girls are trafficked and married and then sell to one hand to another. The situation seems like marriage.
Bride runs away from husband's home citing age gap after her mother slips away to Delhi
BY MEHUL JANI
» Bride runs away from husband's home citing age gap after her mother slips away to Delhi » Husband, booked for rape, says he has been cheated as he was told the girl was 20-year-old » NGO suspects it is a case of child trafficking as the man paid girl's mother for marriage
Childline volunteers spotted Rajesh Parmar’s runaway bride at Kalupur railway station
Rescue of a minor girl at Kalupur railway station on Monday could lead the police and Childline to a case of underage marriage and rape in which the accused claims to be a victim of cheating. Adding to the intrigue, the Childline also sees in it a possibility of child trafficking. Childline, which found the 15-year-old girl Manju (name changed), has already lodged a complaint of underage marriage and rape with Sardarnagar police and asked it to look into the possibility of child trafficking. The girl, meanwhile, has been sent to protection house at Mahipatram Roopram Ashram.
The case unravelled after Childline volunteers found Manju (name changed) at the railway station and brought her to their office in Paldi. NGO's Assistant Director Purnima Gupta said when taken into confidence, Manju said she was 15-year-old and used to live at Sultanpur in Delhi with her grandmother Ratna and aunts after her step mother went to live with another man a few months ago. Her father had died some years back. A couple of months ago, the grandmother came to visit her relatives in Sardarnagar in Ahmedabad while Manju stayed back in Delhi with her aunts. In April-end, her grandmother called her to Ahmedabad and on May 1 got her married to 31-year-old Rajesh Parmar, a vegetable vendor who lived in the neighbourhood. Ratna brought Manju back as part of social custom and about five days ago, she was sent back to her husband’s house, again as custom demanded.
‘BIG AGE DIFFERENCE’ However, Manju said she did not like the place. “There was a big age difference between us. Also, he used to harass me,” she told Gupta. On June 8 she left home and reached the railway station with a view to going to Delhi. That is when Childline volunteers spotted her. The volunteers located Parmar after a search and asked him to come over to their office. Interaction with Parmar and his mother Meera revealed another saga, pointing at possible child trafficking or cheating or both.
According to Meera, she and her son came in contact with Ratna while selling vegetable. It was the old woman who offered to marry Manju to Parmar who stammers and is hard on hearing. Ratna told them that Manju was 20. Ratna asked for money as she said she needed it to bring Manju to Ahmedabad. The Parmars claimed they paid her Rs 5,000. “She again demanded money to conduct the marriage.
This time we paid Rs 5000. After the marriage, she took Manju home following custom and when it was time to send her back to our place she asked for Rs 10,000 money, claiming that she had no money to send Manju back to her husband’s home with adequate clothes and other household articles as social custom demanded. It is the old woman and the girl who have made a fool of us,” Meera claimed. The old woman in the meanwhile left for Delhi. Childline has contacted Ratna and she has agreed to come to see Manju, Gupta said.
According to her, it could be a case of child trafficking, too. “We are not sure under which circumstances, but money has changed hands. We hope to get a clear picture when Sardarnagar police conducts the enquiry,” Gupta said.
Accused Rajesh Parmar and his mother Meera claim that they have been cheated
A complaint of rape under IPC 376 was also lodged against Parmar. “We will also look into the possibility of child trafficking as Childline has suggested. A police team visited Mahipatram Ashram in the evening to speak to Manju, but it was asked to come again tomorrow (Tuesday),” Patel said.
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khushbu of dobhi (Gaya, Bihar) was sold as bride to a man in village Dekana of Badaut (Bagpat, Uttar Pradesh) against INR 20,000 in 2010, and have a 8 month girl child, after the birth of that girl child her 'husband' tried to sold her again but she managed to escape and contacted our dynamic activist Prem kumar vidharthi for help. he assured her for help and informed her father who was willing to give her shelter and all supports, her father Mr. XYZ Khan shares that "khushbu and her 2 other sisters were sold by a women Aamna khatoon of khatakhedi rasoolpur (Uttar pradesh) who lured them for a better life, and happily married life while khan and his wife was out of village. the trafficker managed to escape with girls and sold them. they tried to register FIR with the local police but police never cooperated, police officials advise him to check their love affairs in village or near by areas. his other daughter was traced in Mathura who is not willing to back her home as she don't like to face her father or other family members. but another girl is still missing the Team EMPOWER PEOPLE is in search of that minor girl. while khooshbu is with her native family and we are trying to help her in build a better life.
The Delhi High Court Wednesday took a suo moto cognizance of a media report on the failure of police for not registering an FIR on the charge of gang-rape after a teenaged girl was rescued from a brothel and issued notice to the government and police.
A division bench of Chief Justice D. Murugesan and Justice Jayant Nath sought the reply of police and the city government by July 10. The magistrate before whom the girl was presented May 11 had filed a plea in the court.
After reading a news report of a national daily which said that police had even allowed alleged culprits, abductors and brothel owners to intimidate the victim during her court presence, the court sought the magistrate's report.
"Girls who are rescued from the brothel could not reveal the truth to the court as they (brothel owners, abductors) were present in the court...In this case they even threatened the girl sitting in the court room to bring her back into the business," the bench said and appointed advocate Zubeda Begam to assist it in the case.
"Police even did not file the FIR (first information report) on the charge of the gang-rape...We want guidelines in this regards...," said the bench, which sought a report from the magistrate before whom the girl was presented.
As per the media report, a 19-year-old girl was rescued May 9 by police from a brothel at G.B. Road in central Delhi and police did not deem it fit to register a gang-rape case.
"Rather, it allowed her rapists, abductors and brothel owners to intimidate her during her court presence. And while her father has come from South 24 Parganas district of West Bengal to take his youngest daughter back, she was sent to Nari Niketan instead," the report said.
Integrated Regional Information Networks (IRIN), Bride trafficking to China could rise, 19 March 2013, available at: http://www.refworld.org/docid/514c5c812.html [accessed 29 May 2013]
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Bride trafficking to China from Southeast Asian countries which do not border on that country looks set to grow, says the UN, with the first reported cases from Cambodia in 2012.
"The numbers of identified cases are still small, but this number could rise given the social demographics in play," Lisa Rende Taylor, chief technical adviser for the UN Inter-Agency Project on Human Trafficking (UNIAP), told IRIN, noting that in the past marriage trafficking to China had only been known from countries bordering China (Myanmar, Laos and Vietnam).
In China, government figures for 2012 indicated that there were 117.78 newborn boys for every 100 newborn girls. It is estimated there will be 24 million more men than women at marrying age by 2020.
In 2012, at least three suspected cases of marriage trafficking were reported from Cambodia, with hundreds more from the region. Most cases go unreported.
RANGIA: Six minor girls were rescued today along the Assam-Bhutan border when they were on their way to Gujarat for allegedly being sold there for sex trade, police said.
The girls aged 12-15 years were rescued by the people of Moranjana village who suspected foul play by two persons Parbati Barman and Haricharan Boro — who were escorting the girls, they said.
The two escorts were held by the people and handed over to police and the girls sent back to their families, they said.
The girls belonging to poor families of the tea tribe community were taken from their Paharpur village in Kamrup district by a vehicle for boarding a train to Gujarat from Moranjana, police said.
They were lured on the promise of jobs in companies and offices at good salaries that they could send back home, they said.
Another person, Safiqul Islam, accompanying the girls is absconding and police has launched a search operation to nab him.
Parbati and Haricharan confessed before the police that they would regularly take both minor girls and boys from Assam for sale in Gujarat. TOI
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Ghaziabad: A human trafficking racket involved in selling girls as brides in Delhi and NCR areas busted in Indirapuram area with the arrest of five people, including the woman kingpin.On an information that a trafficking racket is being run from a rented house at Khora Colony in Indirapuram area, police sent a decoy customer, who finalised a deal to purchase a girl and gave Rs 10,000 as advance, SSP Nitin Tiwari said.As soon as the deal was made, a police team reached the spot and arrested the gang's kingpin, Babli, and four others - Mintu, Dablu, Rajkumar and Mohd Samim - involved in the racket. Police also rescued two girls. The gang used to bring girls from railway stations and others areas on the pretext of giving them jobs and then supply them as brides to haryana and punjab
JASHPUR: In a major breakthrough, Jashpur police rescued three girls on Thursday, who were working as domestic help in New Delhi. Two of these girls were minors.
The girls aged 14, 15 and 18 years, went to New Delhi when their relatives either luring them with good money and better living conditions or took advantage of their pitiable circumstances. One of these girls had lost her father and her house was demolished in an attack.
"The girl aged 18 now was a minor when she was sent to Delhi," police said. Condition of the rescued girls is said to be normal and as of now they haven't revealed anything about abuse or exploitation. "It will only be known after quizzing them during counseling," a police official said. One of the girls, belonging to Tapkara block, went to New Delhi five years ago and the other two who are from Kansabel went there three years and one and a half years ago respectively.
According to police, the issue came to fore last week when another 14-year-old girl returned to Jashpur after working for two years in New Delhi and informed the police about how one of her friends was sold for Rs 45,000 by three local persons named Anil Tirke, Augustine and Anand.
Police somehow managed to nab Anil and Anand while the third remains at large. "A team was then sent to New Delhi with Anand to rescue the girl and it came as a shock when there were two more girls sent by the accused. During interrogation, Anand has accepted that they used to get Rs 10,000 for each girl sold. We have received information that Augustine has been arrested by other state police on the same grounds," police said.
Talking to TOI, superintendent of police, Jashpur, Manish Sharma said, "Police have rescued girls from Uttam Nagar, Punjabi Bagh and Pashchim Vihar areas. We have been sending a police team every month to New Delhi to track missing children and those who had gone voluntarily for providing their services as domestic help. In the last three years, more than 250 children, all belonging to very poor families, have been rescued from Kolkata, Karnataka, Punjab, Uttarakhand and maximum from New Delhi."
TOI spoke to one of the girls over telephone and she said, "My uncle took me to Delhi luring me with good money to build my house which was demolished by elephants. As my father died four years ago, I had to look after my siblings too and I agreed on the condition that I would work in nearby Raigarh district. But without my knowledge, he took me to Delhi for a mere monthly payment of Rs 2,000. I used to work for 14 hours everyday." Another victim doesn't have any idea about what was her payment and said that her agent used to collect the money.
Police said that the girls would be handed over to their families after a brief interrogation. TOI REPORT
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Reena student of class nine and resident of Goa village of Kannauj was abducted and trafficked to Hardoi district of Uttar pradesh. she was forcibly married off with the trafficker Babloo. Reena was first raped raped by Amit, elder brother of Babloo. and then repeatedly gang raped by both brothers, after eight days she was rescued with help of talgram police. a FIR has lodged under IPC section 365, 366 in Talgram Police station, the Amit is arrested while Babloo is still at large
A mother Shahnaz resident of Satbehri podiya village of Phalka police station (Katihar, Bihar) sold her 16 year old daughter to a 40 year old Man from Unnao of Uttar Pradesh. one of local trafficker Panchu mandal gave her assurance that the man will marry her daughter and give her thousand rupee for arranging Nikah. She sold her daughter in the hands of a man Rajesh. But Pancu advised her to introduce him as Hussein then relatives or neighbours would not be angry. Panchu assured her to organize the marraige in home town of buyer. they paid her one thousand rupees which she spend to buy some gifts for her daughter. an FIR has lodged in Phalka police station of Katihar dated on 18th May 2013Seemanchal is now emerging as hub of bride trafficking and this modus operandi was traced in Jharkhand, West Baangal and Assam but its new for Seemanchal region of Bihar. slave traders or trafficker always roams in villages to find a vulnerable family where parents are overburdened for marraige of their adolescent daughters.
Guwahati: Delhi, Haryana and Mumbai have emerged as the biggest markets for women from Assam. A student of class IX was kidnapped on January 26 and illegally sold by middlemen in Haryana. The student was an Assamese girl of 15 years old.Her groom, an old man enough to be her father allegedly brought her for Rs 70,000. The girl however managed to escape and later police rescued her.As per official records from Assam, in the last decade around 139 girls were rescued by police and anti-trafficking organizations from these states. In 2011-12, around 26 girls were rescued from Mumbai, 11 from Haryana, while 38 from New Delhi. In 2002-2012, around 341 girls were rescued from various states.There are fake placement agencies in Delhi which lure girls from remote parts of Assam with jobs. The girls are then sold to agents in Haryana, who in return, sell them to grooms in Hisar. This district, incidentally, has one of the lowest sex ratios in the country, the victim told.The officials from Assam claimed that girls mostly from Assam and other parts on the north east are sold for anything between Rs 50,000 to Rs one lakh at Surya Nagar Market of Hisar.
EMPOWER PEOPLE is an NGO in India working to protect female victims of violence and mitigate post-violence trauma. EMPOWER PEOPLE is one of the pioneer organizations focusing on the issue of human trafficking for the purpose of forced marriage.
What is also called "bride trafficking" affects a yet unknown number of girls, particularly from poor backgrounds, who are deceived and trafficked to be sold as brides. According to information gathered by EMPOWER PEOPLE, a middleman seeks an agreement on an arranged marriage with the family of the girls. Later those girls are transferred to another places where there is a high demand of brides, like Haryana, Punjab and Rajasthan where they are known as "Paro" or "Molki" (literally perched woman).
The main focus of EMPOWER PEOPLE lies on awareness raising and sensitization trainings for law enforcement agencies. The organization is also offering direct victim support and assistance to women vulnerable to human trafficking and domestic violence.
EMPOWER PEOPLE is currently developing projects of community engagement and rehabilitation of trafficking victims in both source and destination areas in seven states of India.
