External Affairs Minister Sushma Swaraj with Maharashtra Women Commission chief Vijaya Rahatkar during the 'National Conference on NRI marriages and trafficking of women and childr...
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External Affairs Minister Sushma Swaraj looks on, during the 'National Conference on NRI marriages and trafficking of women and children', in New Delhi.
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The father and brother of Faraq and Pinki
Photograph by Sandipan Chatterjee
An artist participate in a awareness programme on human trafficking, in New Delhi.
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Omani and Qatari nationals along with Indian Muslim priests after their arrest in Hyderabad on charges of human trafficking and child marriage. The police arrested five Omani, thre...
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San Antonio police officers investigate the scene where eight people were found dead in a tractor-trailer loaded with at least 30 others outside a Walmart store in stifling summer ...
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Kingpin
Chandana Chakraborty
Photograph by S. Majumdar
Patsy?
Local BJP leader Juhi Chowdhury is produced at a court in Jalpaiguri
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Ashray, the women’s shelter owned by Chandana Chakraborty in Jalpaiguri
Photograph by S. Majumdar
House Of Horror
Ten children were rescued from Purbasha Home
Photograph by Sandipan Chatterjee
‘First Stop’
Two babies were found buried in the backyard of this NGO at Machlandapur in Bengal’s North 24 Parganas
Photograph by Sandipan Chatterjee
Babies found during a raid on Purbasha Home at Thakurpukur, Calcutta
Missing
Reshma Bibi’s daughter suspects her baby was sold off by Sohan nursing home in Bhaduria, West Bengal
Photograph by Sandipan Chatterjee
Congress spokesperson Shobha Oza (centre) speaks at a press conference held in reaction to the Outlook cover story on the trafficking of 31 tribal girls from Assam by Sangh affilia...
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Shobha Oza with Priyanka Chaturvedi at a press conference on Child Trafficking Issue at AICC, in New Delhi.
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Not In Order
CWC officials inspect the Patiala children’s home
In-Sidious
Brahma helped the Sangh parivar zero in on needy families
Photograph by Sandipan Chatterjee
Child Lost
Ropi, whose daughter Divi is one of the 31 missing kids
Photograph by Sandipan Chatterjee
Net Layer
Mangal Mardi, Sangh activist, at his Gossaigaon home
Placement agencies are trafficking agencies. Instead of curbing the sale of girls, rape, and the sale of their babies, the government seeks to legalise the agencies.
Trafficked, traded, enslaved, raped and made to conceive babies for adoption. Adivasi girls are turned into baby-making machines that fetch Rs 1-4 lakh per child.
Each of the seven girls who walked down the ramp had their mouths covered by scarves, symbolising the society's attempt to muzzle their voices, says Designer Agnimitra Paul.
The police said that the 42-year-old, along with her husband, Rohit Muni, allegedly ran an NGO that lured girls on the pretext of getting them jobs as housemaids in Delhi and later sold them off.
Earlier, the army had found Major Gogoi guilty in the Srinagar hotel altercation case and came to a conclusion that the facts on the ground are against him, and sought disciplinary action against Major Gogoi