Campaign Against Bride Trafficking (INDIA)

In Morena district, a network of brokers who buy and sell girls from Bihar and Uttar Pradesh for one and a half lakh rupees is active to get older men married. Recently, the case was revealed when a girl brought from Ambah from Bihar in Ambah accused her in-laws of harassment. On the complaint of this girl who turned out to be a minor in the investigation, the action is being taken to register a case against her husband and her in-laws.

After this case, Dainik Bhaskar did a sting operation and contacted the people associated with such network, then a broker bluntly said - Give me 1.25 lakh rupees, I guarantee I will buy you to 18 to 20 years old girl from Bihar. He also claimed to have 10 to 15 marriages by forging such purchases. There are more than two dozen brokers active in the network, who are looking for youths who are unable to get married even after they are financially prosperous. These brokers buy girls from Bihar, Banaras, Chhatarpur for more than 100 middle-aged virgins every year by taking a fee of Rs 50,000. This trend has also increased rapidly in the upper and rich communities.

The serious thing is that 50 per cent of these brides, after staying in the in-laws' house for two to three months, disappear with their belongings. Half of these cases do not even reach the police stations due to fear of social disgrace. A similar case was revealed in Ambah recently when the girl complained against her in-laws accusing them of harassment.

Cheating Found: The girl who was bought for around 0.5- 1 lakh absconded, missing in the police station.

1. A young man from a wealthy family living in Ganeshpura area of ​​the city brought a bride from Chhatarpur for one lakh rupees. Three months later, during the lockdown, the woman came out of her mother-in-law's Nainagarh road carrying bags in the afternoon and boarded a bus to Gwalior. From here she took a bus and reached her village Chhatarpur. The young man gave an application in City Kotwali and informed about his wife being missing but after the news of her arrival at home, the family sat silent.

2. A young man from a rich family living in Jaura brought a bride from Bihar for one lakh rupees through a broker six months ago. For two months her daughter-in-law lived in the house harmoniously. After this, she ran along with the cash and jewellery kept in the house. Fearing social shame, the family did not register a complaint with the police station.

The broker said - I want 50 thousand, I will get you married in this season only

Bhaskar reporter faked as Ramjeevan Gupta, Gwalior and talked to Broker Bindu Baniya on his landlord's mobile number 88157-63022. The recording of the conversation is safe with Bhaskar.

A small expert from Broker and Bhaskar's phone conversations,

Do not worry, I am guaranteeing I will do a solid job ...

Bhaskar: My son has a stall of Chat in Gwalior, has turned 35 years old. Settle something for him.

Broker: Okay, see me tomorrow.

I live in Gwalior. Where do you want to meet, Gwalior or Morena? Whatever you want.

Bhaskar - How much will they spend

Broker: Panditji must have told. It will cost 1.25 lakh rupees.

Bhaskar - It should not happen that our son becomes a victim of fraud.

Broker: We guarantee, nothing like this will happen.

Bhaskar- Money to be paid at one time or in instalments.

Broker: Give me 50 thousand when it's done.

Bhaskar - The girl must be of a young age.

Broker: Brother, get it, I have a party in Vikram Ganj Bihar. My wife also from the same village. I have done 15 ties so far. How old will your son be and what is his colour.

Bhaskar - 34-35 years old, dark coloured, but the girl should not be less than 20-22 years old.

Broker: You do not take tension, you will get 18 to a 19-year-old girl. There are many in Gwalior too. I am guaranteeing I will do a solid job. If the party comes, its expenses will be yours, and not there’s. I will go to Bihar, bring the party and then talk.

Bhaskar - Don't worry about your expenses.

Broker: I talk to them while sitting face to face. I will get them married in this season

The Hindi Daily Dainik Bhaskar had published their sting here... https://dainik-b.in/prKnFMgoAdb We have translated this news article to make it visible to anti trafficking Activists and agencies,

The Delhi Commission for Women (DCW) rescued a minor girl of Sundergarh district who was allegedly trafficked to Rajasthan in December 2017. As per reports, the anti-trafficking squad of the DCW raided a place in Jhunjhunu of Rajasthan and rescued the minor girl after her family sought their intervention. The 16-year-old minor girl is pregnant and has been brought to Delhi.

Father of the minor girl, a resident of Lathikata of Sundergarh, alleged that his daughter was sold-off to one Pawan Agarwal and Kisan Agarwal of Rajasthan two years back. Moreover, the relatives sold the girl without the knowledge of family, alleged the girl’s father.

“My relatives had sold my daughter to Pawan Agarwal and Kisan Agarwal of Rajasthan after kidnapping her. Following this, I lodged a police complaint at Lathikata. But the local police did not take any action. In January, I had approached the Delhi Commission for Women to rescue my daughter,” said the girl’s father.

AHMEDABAD: More terrifying details are emerging from the interrogation
interrogation of Maya Sathwara and her accomplice Prakash Marathi.
Isanpur police on Monday arrested one more accused involved in the human trafficking racket case from Bapunagar area. The accused has been identified as Prakash Marathi, a resident of Bapunagar who operates an auto rickshaw in the city.

It was revealed during the police investigation that Marathi and Maya Sathwara used to run the entire racket.

Marathi used to kidnap girls from different parts of the city in his auto and used to hand them over to Maya, who would later sell them in different areas of the country. It was also revealed during the investigation that in the kidnapping of the girls, Marathi was helped by another auto driver identified as Mahesh. For kidnapping the girls, both men used to get a cut from Maya. The police have been able to arrest Marathi from his house in Bapunagar area while the search for Mahesh is still on.

Saurabh Tolabiya, DCP Zone 6, said, "By interrogating Maya, we have found out that the accused have been involved in five human trafficking cases until now. However, we suspect that they are involved in more such cases, which will be revealed after further investigation. Our priority was to nab Marathi in the matter, which we did and his interrogation should reveal more details." Senior police officials suspect that around 50 more girls have been victims of the racket. Cops have sent teams to Kheda, Dakor and Bhavnagar where the girl was sold, to get more information from the families to whom she was sold to. Regarding the cases of five other kidnapped girls, cops have started investigating and are trying to contact the girls for further investigation.

Maya was selling girls for Rs 2 lakh

According to the police, after the girls were kidnapped, Maya used to give them some injections and liquor to keep them intoxicated. Meanwhile, she used to make fake documents for the girls such as aadhar card, voter id, etc and used to change their name. Later, posing as an agent or a family member of the girl, she used to get them married off to people in Kheda, Dakor and Bhavnagar, for which she used to charge money. 

A few days after the marriage, she used to take the girls back from the family and later, sell them to a new family. When members of the family where the girl had initially been married off to, would come searching for the bride, she used to say that the girl has fled and she is also searching for her. She used the same modus operandi everywhere, and used to give a percentage to her partners Marathi and Mahesh.

18-year-old girl busted racket

In January 2017, an 18-year-old victim who had been kidnapped, managed to return to her family in Ahmedabad. She narrated the entire incident in front of the police about how she was sold thrice over by Maya to different families in Dakor, Kheda and Bhavnagar. In front of the family from Bhavnagar, the girl revealed the truth about Maya and narrated the entire incident. After that, the Bhavnagar family took her to Ahmedabad and found her parents. 

Bhiwani police on Friday rescued a minor girl, a native of Odisha, in a critical condition after she reportedly jumped off a two-storey building to escape her tormentor.

The girl’s uncle had brought her to Haryana on the pretext of visiting a relative and later sold her to one Sandeep and his mother Sankuntala of Dhani village for Rs 2 lakh, two months ago.

The 15-year-old girl suffered critical injuries while attempting to flee and is now undergoing treatment at Hisar hospital.

The victim also told the police that Sandeep had forcefully married her at a local temple. Since then she was kept in confinement and constantly raped by him.

On basis of the girl’s statement, Haryana police have arrested the mother-son duo. They have been under sections of the Juvenile Justice (Care and Protection of Children) Act, Protection of Children from Sexual Offences Act and the Prohibition of Child Marriage Act.

A minor girl has registered a case against her parents for selling her as bride. Native of Sirdala police station of Nawada has alleged that she was forcibly married off to Ranjit tewari of Nagdi village of Giridih (Jharkhand) in July 2018. After marriage she realised that she was sold into marriage for 1.5 lakhs. Upon realizing the fact and regular misbehave she fled to Bhabhua where her cousin sister sheltered her for few days later the girl approached the local police.
However, Her parents alleged that the girl had eloped with her boyfriend and  blackmailing her parents for 3 lakhs. Police is investigating the case

Three Rajasthan men were arrested by GRP Kodarma for trafficking a minor girl from Ichak Police station of Hazaribagh. The accused had planned to take a train from Kodarma Railway station where the GRP was already alerted.
The accused confessed that they had paid Rs. 59,000/- to the step-mother of the minor for marrying her off to a 34 year old man. 
After the confession from the arrested men, Police also detained the step-mother. She went on to confess that the minor girl was already married and this was her second marriage. The step-mother also confessed that she had received money from these youths but she insisted that the money was taken as a loan from them since they had become relatives after marriage.
Police is investigating the case.

A  30-year-old woman was kidnapped from Bhopal, taken to Indore and Rajasthan where she was sold for Rs 2 lakh. The woman was then raped for 24 days before the police managed to track and rescue her. The woman was held captive, raped multiple times a day. She was threatened that if she mentioned about this to anyone, she would be murdered. Meanwhile, the Bhopal police officials tracked her mobile phone and reached the house in Alwar where she was allegedly being tortured.

The woman was living with her parents in Bhopal after divorce with her husband. She started working in a private firm to earn her livelihood, while working she came into contact with man namely Subhash Yadav who promised her good job in Indore, he promised her that new job will pay at least 15000/month.

They stayed in Indore for two days and later he asked her to accompany her to Alwar for urgent work. They reached Alwar court where she made to sign few Stamped documents in pretext of Job. Later she realised she have signed marriage document. Deaf and mute Bholaram Yadav son of Rohitash yadav resident of Majra Ahir Alwar became her husband without her consent. Rohitash Yadav paid Rs. 200000 to subhash Yadav.   
She was forced to go with Rohitash yadav of Majra-Ahir. She was living with her ‘husband’. Her mobile and other belongings was snatched, she was raped and confined in the room.

When she lost her contact with the family. Brother of the victim filled a missing report in Nishatpur police station. The call tracking system suggested the last location of the mobile around the village. Resultantly, an investigation was launched in the village and girl was rescued on 23^rd of September. FIR against all accused has been lodged. Father-Son has been arrested while Subhash yadav is still on run.  

Four people, including two women, were arrested in Hyderabad on 26 November 2018 for their involvement in a contract marriage racket.

They were arrested from a house in Mailardevpally, while the wedding-ceremonies were still going on.

Among the four arrested, one was a Sudanese, who was the 'groom', and the other three, all residents of Hyderabad, served as marriage brokers and witnesses to the 'nikah.

The 31-year-old Sudanese, Wail Mohammed, had paid Rs. 1L to Habib the agent, for the 'bride', for a three-month contract marriage.

The wedding was subsequently organized at a house in Roshan Colony, Vattepally (Mailardevpally), Monday.

The SOT got a whiff of the same and inspected the house, where they found the contract marriage was already underway.

Wail, Jahanuma-resident Habeeb, Shamem and Shabana were subsequently nabbed and cops also seized Wail's passport, two fake marriage agreements, one stamp pad, Rs. 1.1 lakh cash and $300.

Contract marriages aren't a new thing in the old city of Hyderabad.

It's rather a pretty prevalent practice, involving 'agents', who are city residents and Gulf nationals, who arrive in India on visit visa. These parties lure poor families and convince them to marry off their daughters against a huge sum.

Trend
After the 'nikah' gets done, the new helpless and hapless 'bride' is trafficked out of the country on forged documents arranged by the agent.

A Kolnara (Rayagada) girl was sold in Rajasthan for Rs 1 lakh by a conman, has been rescued.

The accused has been identified as Harian Mehta.

Mehta took the girl from Rayagada after promising her a job. However, he held the girl captive in Rajasthan and later sold her.

Her mother Himirika Gorimani and relatives approached Rayagada Collector and filed a complaint.

They also approached the District Labour officer.

On the direction of the Collector, a special team comprising two police officials and a labour officer was formed. The three-member team along with the victim’s mother visited Baran district of Rajasthan.

With the help of Baran district administration, they rescued the girl from Baunsakela village in the district where she was kept captive by Mehta at his house.

However, Mehta managed to give the slip to the cops.

Thanks to the Puri Police, Dalit woman Daudi Mallick, a victim of trafficking, has finally been rescued from Madhya Pradesh, where she had been sold off and was being tortured.

The joint efforts of MP’s Ashok Nagar police and Puri police helped locating the woman along with her handicapped girl child. After her arrival at the Puri railway platform at about 11am on Tuesday by the Ajmeer-Puri express, she straightway moved to the Sadar police station for appearance along with her parents. After a preliminary interrogation, she was asked by the police to go home and reappear on Wednesday for a detailed grilling. Inspector General (Central) Saumendra Priyadarshi was relaxed after her rescue. Priyadarshi was one who had immediately ordered the Puri police to expedite the search operation and to be in touch with the MP police.

Puri SP Sarthak Sararngi said the victim was already under supervision of the Ashok Nagar police, after a request was made from his side. “I talked to SP, Ashok Nagar, personally and requested him to rescue the lady. Then the jurisdictional police rescued her and sent her to Puri,” said Sarangi.

The woman narrated her ordeal by the MP man whom she was sold off and showed some injury spots from her leg to neck.  She said after interference of police and the local sarpanch, accused Dhusa Singh who had kept her a captive, sent her to Puri. He booked a ticket for her paying her handicapped daughter Rs 100, said Daudi who had not eaten anything throughout a long journey till arrival at Puri. She said Dusha was beating her every day after he knew her of being a mother of four children. He didn’t accept her even after a forcible marriage and asked her to return Rs 55,000. “One day, I ran out of home when I saw police van in the village. I lost the van as some neighbouring women dragged me into house,” said Daudi exposing a racket behind her trafficking which is operating in Puri. Notably, on October 14, Aru Mallick of Brahmagiri had lodged a complaint with the Puri sadar police that at a cost of Rs 55,000, his daughter Daudi had been sold off to one Dhusa Singh of Janata village near the Ashok Nagar railway station of MP.

The Haryana Police on Saturday claimed to have busted a gang of criminals involved in human trafficking and has arrested two of its members and got three minor girls released after a raid conducted under the supervision of Assistant Commissioner of Police (ACP), Child Welfare Council (CWC).

A spokesman of Haryana Police said that these arrests were made following a complaint lodged at Women Police Station, Faridabad by a member of Child Welfare Council, Suman on January 28.

He said it was two years ago that a minor girl was sold by her maternal grandmother to a person Surinder for Rs 4,000.

Surinder brought the girls to his office where he allegedly sexually harassed her and then left her at someone’s residence as a domestic help. Now about 15 days ago, Mani Mishra, a friend of Surinder brought the girl to Faridabad and raped her several times by threatening her.

He also beat her and snatched Rs 30,000 which the girl had received as her wages for working as a domestic help. Therefore, the girl was admitted to Government Badshah Khan Hospital in Faridabad where she was medically examined and is still admitted there and undergoing treatment.

The spokesman said a special team of the crime branch Sector 30, police station, Faridabad, led by Inspector Sandeep Mor nabbed Surinder from the area of Police Station Surajkund on February 2. The accused was handed over to the team of ACP Puja Dabla for further investigation.

Surinder has admitted that he used to purchase girls from his neighbouring villages and sell them to Mani Mishra and members of his family for Rs 15,000 to Rs 20,000. They used to supply these girls in the National Capital Region and Faridabad to work as domestic help.

Surinder has admitted that he and Mani Mishra had sexually harassed the victim several times. Surinder disclosed during his interrogation while Mani Mishra and members of his family live in a house, the girls are kept in a separate house. Surinder had also engaged a care taker namely Arun to look after these girls.

On the basis of information provided by Surinder,the police recovered three girls from the house of Mani Mishra. The spokesman said the three girls who were recovered in a raid have been medically examined at the Badshah Khan Hospital. Surinder has so far sold 25 to 30 girls to Mani Mishra, the investigations so far have revealed.

The Odisha police have arrested a Border Security Force constable from West Bengal on the charge of trafficking a woman from Malkangiri on the promise of marriage and abandoning her at Sonepat in Haryana, the police said on Monday.

An Odisha Police team with the help of its West Bengal counterpart arrested the constable from Rosan Bagh, Murshidabad on January 25.
He was produced before the court of additional chief judicial magistrate of Lalbagh, Murshidabad the next day and with its permission was taken on four days’ transit remand to Malkangiri on Sunday, the police said.

The Odisha police have registered a case of trafficking against the BSF constable, who hails from Rohat village in Sonepat district of Haryana, they said.

Severed connections

The constable had come in contact with the woman, who is from Chitrakonda area, when he was posted in Malkangiri district in 2012. In September next year he took the woman with him to Sonepat and kept her in a rented house there, police said.

The BSF constable allegedly had physical relation with the woman, who delivered a girl child in 2014. After the birth of the baby, the constable allegedly severed all connections with the woman, who stayed on in Sonepat for six months waiting for him.

As he did not return or keep contact, the woman returned to her paternal home at Chitrakonda and had complained to the Chitrakonda police station on February 27, 2017.

PTI

Guwahati: The state has in shame again. In the recent incident, a daughter was sold by father in Haryana. The sensational incident took place in Nagaon, sources said.

As per reports, the victim’s father trapped her by saying that they are supposed to attend a wedding of their relative in Haryana and den sold her to a human trafficker.

The incident came in light after locals inquired about the victim girl to her father. Police arrested Narayan Dekaraj, father of the victim and a lady named Anuradha Pator in accused of trafficking, it added.

According to police officials, they are investigating the case and will bring back the girl by taking the information from the father and the lady.

The victim’s father trapped her by saying that they are supposed to attend a wedding
Police is investigating the case and will bring back the girl by taking the information

Nainital: The district and sessions court in Almora has sentenced the father of a 13-year-old bride to life imprisonment while her 38-year-old husband and her grandmother have been ordered to undergo rigorous imprisonment of 10 years each. The court held that “no sympathy” should be shown to the girl’s father, a resident of Khola village, and slapped a fine of Rs 15,000 on him on Monday.

The court order comes just days after the Supreme Court ruled that sexual intercourse between a man and his wife below 18 years of age will count as rape and the husband can face up to 10 years’ imprisonment under the IPC or even a life term under the POCSO Act. The apex court had also said that child marriages should be declared void and stringent punishment should be prescribed against family members who promote and perform such marriages.

In this case, the court in Almora has awarded the father of the minor bride life imprisonment under Sections 120B (criminal conspiracy) and 370 (4) (trafficking a minor) of the Indian Penal Code. He was also awarded rigorous imprisonment of two years under Section 10 of the Prohibition of Child Marriage Act, 2006. All sentences will run concurrently, the court said.

The husband of the underage bride, a resident of Aligarh in UP, was also awarded rigorous imprisonment of 10 years under Section 370 (4) of the IPC and rigorous imprisonment of 10 years under Section 120B of the IPC. Under Section 10 of the Prohibition of Child Marriage Act, 2006, he was awarded rigorous imprisonment of two years. His sentences will run concurrently and a fine of Rs 15,000 has also been imposed on him.

The grandmother of the minor, meanwhile, has been awarded rigorous imprisonment of 10 years under Section 370 (4) of the IPC and rigorous imprisonment of 10 years under Section 120B of the IPC. She has been slapped with a fine of Rs 10,000.

Four others, including family members and people from the village, have also been awarded a 10-year jail term each while three people were acquitted of all charges. Police had registered a case against 10 people in February after receiving a complaint about a child marriage being conducted in Khola village.

Taking a tough stand on the matter, sessions judge Gyanendra Kumar Sharma said that the convicts had ruined the life of a girl child. “In this case, I am of the view that the crime committed by the convicts is not a crime against any individual alone, but against society, which affects the grass root level of society in general and the few socially and economically backward areas of Uttarakhand in particular,” the order said.

The order further said, “The court considers there should be no sympathy with the father of the victim, who has arranged the marriage of a 13 years 7 months old girl child with a man of 38 years. In my opinion, the maximum punishment prescribed by law under Section 370 (4), IPC should be awarded to the convict, because it was his volition act to solemnize the marriage of his daughter (sic).”

The court also observed that the fine imposed on the convicts may not be sufficient for compensation and rehabilitation of the victim. The case has been recommended to the District Legal Services Authority, Almora, so that it can determine the compensation amount which would be kept as a fixed deposit in the name of the girl.

"At least 1,494 cases of human trafficking were registered in Assam out of total 6,877 cases of human trafficking were reported across the country. Trafficking has become so rampant in the state that Assam had topped the list of states affected by human trafficking.The state has recorded the highest number of human trafficking cases in the country in 2015. Manisha Dev Barman, a lawyer working for human trafficking victims, said many girls from the state have been found to be trafficked to Haryana, mainly for forced marriage. "She was sold off for Rs 30,000 to one Kalmat Kashyap who married her. GUWAHATI: A 13-year-old trafficking victim from the city's Katabari area was rescued by the city's Gorchuk Police from Jind district in Haryana was brought back on Saturday.

A 13-year-old trafficking victim from the city's Katabari area was rescued by the city's Gorchuk Police from Jind district in Haryana was brought back on Saturday. The girl went missing in April this year when she had gone on a road trip with a person named Mofisuddin."One Mofijuddin befriended her and lured her saying that he would take her to a road trip and to some religious destinations. The girl is from Meghalaya and was living here with her relatives," said Gorchuk police who were investigating the case.Mofisuddin has now been arrested and the girl was found in a Haryana village based on what he revealed during questioning , As Reported By TOI. 

According to the Newspaper,She had been sold off for forced marriage. "She was sold off for Rs 30,000 to one Kalmat Kashyap who married her. Kalmat and another person, Manji, have been taken into custody for further investigation," police sources added.Preliminary probe revealed that Manji, who is also from Haryana, had been staying in the city for a few years now. 

Neemuch: A 17-year-old girl, who was lured into marriage and then sold in Punjab for Rs 70,000 has been rescued by Neemuch police of Madhya Pradesh.

Police have arrested the buyer and mother-daughter duo involved in the human trafficking racket. They have also rescued a woman and her daughter from Uttar Pradesh on the basis of information offered by them.

Radhika (name changed), a native of Pipliya in Neemuch, had gone missing last December, ASP Rajesh Kumar Sagar said. Baghna police probing the disappearance stumbled upon vital links in the case that led to Punjab where the girl was kept.

Not only the girl was recovered but the man Amitabh Agrawal who bought her was also netted by police from Amritsar.