Campaign Against Bride Trafficking (INDIA)

Man gets life imprisonment for selling her Minor daughter in to Bride Trafficking. The 'Husband' and two priests gets ten year imprisonment and 23 thousand fined. 

Mother of Girl, Social worker Dr. Gayatri Pangli, Dr. Khempal, and school teacher of the Girl Shri Daan Singh appeared as witness of the case

The wrinkles on Fazila’s face betray her troubled past. She was brought from Assam and sold to a disabled man in Mewat, Haryana, when she was barely 14 years old, the first of her several husbands. “He brought me to Delhi for 1500 rupees and got me married to a handicapped man. I was forced to do manual labour and even subjected to physical violence and torture,” Fazila, victim of bride trafficking said. 

Women like Fazila were undergoing severe exploitation and abuse as brides before they were rescued by this man Shafiq Khan and his group Empower People. “Bride trafficking is a form of trafficking where girls are deceived in the name of marriage and sold to other buyers. These girls are then kept by buyers as their sex slaves and exploited as laborers,” Shafiq Khan, Founder, Empower People, said. 

Used as sex slaves, sold and resold, these hapless victims come from vulnerable socio-economic backgrounds, an easy prey for bride traffickers. “In the pretext of marriage and declining sex ratio the brides are bought as bonded labourers or to put them into sex trade. In some cases they are also used by group of men within the same family,” Shafiq Khan said. Shafiq has been creating awareness about these trafficked women for the past six years. Watch his story on Amazing Indians this weekend.  Source

PANIPAT: A local woman, who had forced a poor girl from West Bengal into flesh trade and later sold her for Rs 10,000 to a local farmer, was sentenced to three years' imprisonment by additional sessions judge Vani Gopal Sharma on Thursday.

Anita, who lives in hutments in Sector 25, was found guilty of wrongful confinement, abduction and compelling the girl to marry.

Driven by poverty, 20-year-old girl Pinky ran away from her house in Kolkata and reached Panipat railway station. There she met Anita, who, after sympathizing with her, took her home. There she pushed her into flesh trade and kept her in illegal confinement for two months. Later, the girl was sold to Karan Singh, a resident of Chhajpur village in the district, for Rs 10,000.

However, the girl managed to escape from captivity and reached the police station, where a case was registered against Anita on March 12, 2010. Soon, the girl went back to her home in Kolkata and came here only to depose before the court.

After collecting evidence in the case, police moved a challan in the court and during hearings, Anita was found guilty of keeping Pinky in illegal confinement and compelling her to marry Karan Singh. Pronouncing the verdict, judge Vani Gopal Sharma said there was sufficient evidence on record to prove the accused guilty and sentenced her to three years' imprisonment, besides a fine of Rs 1,500.

The Union Home Ministry has cleared Himachal Pradesh government’s proposal to set up Anti-Human Trafficking Units (AHTU) in some of the state’s vulnerable districts, including the border district of Sirmaur, to effectively deal with cases of girls being lured to neighboring Haryana and forced to marry for money. (it is first time in India when any government consider Bride trafficking please watch a training video with Himachal pradesh Police)

There have been similar reports from Shimla’s interiors, such as the Chopal region, and some parts of Solan district, from where girls went missing and were later found in metropolitan towns like Mumbai. Kolkata and Chennai.

Director General of Police, DS Manhas, who was in Delhi, held a meeting with top officials of the Home Ministry to discuss issues related to drug smuggling and growing illegal narcotics trade in parts of Himachal Pradesh. Kullu valley has already become a hot bed of illegal narcotics trade.

Cases of human trafficking had become another concern for the police. “The Centre has given its green signal to set-up AHTUs in six districts — Shimla, Solan, Sirmaur, Kangra, Chamba and Kullu. The Centre will release Rs 96 lakh for this purpose and the units will be functional from next the financial year,” Manhas said on his arrival here.