Dad’s 3-month search for lost daughter ends in city brothel

AMBIKA PANDIT IN THE TIMES OF INDIA

NEW DELHI: In the chaos of busy Swami Shradhanand Marg, commonly referred to as GB Road and known as the capital’s largest red light area, a father wept inconsolably as he hugged his 18-year-old daughter rescued from a hidden chamber in the wall inside a filthy brothel on Thursday.

A Class X student aspiring to be a nurse, the girl was kidnapped from outside her house in a village in the South 24-Parganas district of West Bengal in February this year. She was trafficked to Delhi but police in her home district only registered an FIR in the case on Friday even though the matter was reported by the family on February 15. It was dumped as a mere diary entry of a “missing complaint”.

Even in Delhi all of Friday was spent in deciding whether an FIR should be registered here or not. Finally Delhi Police decided to leave it to the police in West Bengal to register a case and carry out investigations.

This case brings to the fore the plight of the families of missing children. The victim’s father, who is a daily-wage labourer, reveals that the girl was studying for her Class X exam in March. A committed student, the victim stepped out of the house for a short break from her studies and never returned. Her parents and two elder brothers searched in vain and their complaint to the local police failed to make an impact as the records show no effort was made to register a case by police.

Not one to give up hope, the victim’s father contacted NGO Shakti Vahini which had rehabilitated another girl who was trafficked from their village. “I thought maybe someone has taken away my daughter to Delhi like the other girl,” the father told TOI. Some time during the next three months, the father said, an unknown person contacted him to inform she had been kidnapped and kept in a brothel at G B Road. The family was told she was desperate to return home.

The victim’s family joined forces with activists from NGO Shakti Vahini to launch a rescue operation through Delhi Police. The victim’s brother who makes a living by doing embroidery revealed how they went up the narrow stairs to the dingy brothel and finally pulled her out from a hidden chamber. Another girl from Nepal was rescued from a similar chamber in the wall. The victim’s brothers now want to take her home to her mother who has been sick since her disappeared. But the family reunion will have to wait till early next week as the trial court sent her to Nari Niketan for care till final orders are issued for her rehabilitation.

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Summit couple aims to help sex trade victims in India

PUBLISHED IN THE SUMMIT DAILY

Summit County residents Janice and Don Hughes have a lofty goal for their “retirement.” Instead of taking it easy, the two plan to devote the rest of their lives to rehabilitating girls rescued from the sex trade in India.

“We want to do something with the rest of our lives that counts … it’s daunting, but it’s doable,” Janice Hughes said. “Sometimes you just have to plunge forward and trust that it’ll happen.”The couple, who have lived in Summit since 2008, are in the process of setting up a residential home for minor girls in Assam, India through a charitable organization, Seven Sisters International. Over there, the sex trade problem is rampant, the couple said — young girls from small villages are often given away by their families to men who pretend to propose marriage, or make promises of a job in the city that will allow the girls to send needed money home. But instead of marriage or employment, “in reality, these (girls are) working sunup to sundown in a brothel,” Janice said. “Human trafficking is one of the most profitable crimes that there is … now it has surpassed arms trafficking. A human being is a reusable asset.”

There are groups that rescue the minors, but there’s still a problem: There’s very limited aftercare, and some don’t believe the girls have much worth after escape. “Police would say to us: ‘What’s the point of rescuing them, there’s nowhere to put them,’” Janice said.

A home for girls

The Hughes lived in India from 2005 to 2007 where Don, a former police officer, set up a new field office for International Justice Mission, a human rights organization that rescues victims of violence, sexual exploitation, slavery and oppression. The couple recognized that need for aftercare and, recently, found a 3,000-square-foot home they could use in Guwahati, Assam. The space, which can accommodate 20-25 girls, will hopefully be up and running by the beginning of next year. Here’s how it will work: Clients will be referred through the Child Welfare Committee of Assam, and partner organizations throughout India, and brought in for an evaluation. Seven Sisters staff will conduct home studies to see if it’s safe for victims to return to their families — sometimes there was abuse, sometimes the families knew what the girls were getting into, and sometimes, the girls just don’t know where they came from — and if not, they’ll live at the Seven Sisters site. At the home, the girls will be given education, medical care and counseling by trained staff, but above all, love.

“We want to treat these girls like they’re our own,” Don said. “We want them to have a high view of their prospects.” Don said he and Janice were inspired by a rescue home they visited a few years ago in Nepal, run by a Brazilian couple. The homes were bright and cheerful and clean, and “they were like sisters, the girls,” Don said.

That Seven Sisters atmosphere will be a far cry from previous conditions for the young girls rescued in India; The Hughes told the story of a few minors, only 11 and 12, who were saved from a trafficker soon after their capture. They had been given a pair of new earrings and a sari by the criminals — items many young women dream of, the couple said — so “they thought they hit the big time,” Janice said. “They didn’t know they were going to be repeatedly raped and abused.”

When they’re initially rescued, the girls are often terrified, sullen, and distrustful of their rescuers — they’re worried they’re being sold somewhere else, Janice said. Sometimes they’re pregnant, or infected with disease.

“We have seen results of love and care, and it’s remarkable what happens,” Don said. The Hughes estimate the home will cost them $8,000-10,000 a month, money that right now, they’re trying to raise. They pay their own expenses from their pockets.Sometimes people say that the problem is too big, too big to make a difference, Don said. But that’s not a reason to ignore it in the couples’ eyes.“If we can help this one girl, her life is changed forever,” he said. “If you stepped back and looked at the big picture, you wouldn’t do anything.”

Fundraiser, and more info:

> For more information about the Hughes’ efforts, go to www.7sistersinternational.org. Donations can be made on the website, or send checks made out to Agape Outpost (the Hughes’ home church) to: Agape Outpost, P.O. Box 1423, Breckenridge, CO 80424. Attach a note to designate the gift to Seven Sisters.

> The Hughes are holding a fundraiser and Indian Tea from 3-5 p.m., Aug. 25 at The Church of Agape Outpost, 15404 Hwy 9, in Breckenridge. There will be a presentation, and Indian appetizers and chai tea will be served. For more information call (970) 453-1247.

PUBLISHED IN THE SUMMIT DAILY

Traffickers rob Sunderbans kids of childhood

Sumati Yengkhom in TIMES OF INDIA

Patharpratima (South 24 Parganas): In July 2009, 10-year-old Farzara (all names changed) disappeared from Patharpratima’s Kishori Nagar. Three years have passed since then, but the girl remains untraced till now. Her parents fear the girl has been sold off to some brothel by traffickers.

“I fear that my daughter must have been thrown into flesh trade by now. It pains me when I think of the trauma she must be going through. Whatever condition she may be in, we want her back home,” the girl’s father lamented.Few kilometres away in Bhagatpur, Supratim Maji has been regretting sending her 15-year-old daughter off to Delhi for work. Anjali had left home in April 2007. The prospect of working as a domestic help, which would ensure the girl proper food and a few hundred rupees, was too lucrative. The family agreed when a ‘placement agency’ proposed that he girl be sent with them.

“We are too poor to feed our children. We thought by sending her off she would at least get food to eat,” regretted Maji.

Pockets in South 24-Parganas, specially Sandeshkhali and Patharpratima, have emerged as a hot spot for traffickers over the years. Police officers and NGOs working on the issue are concerned about the vulnerability of children from these regions. “There is an spurt in the number of minors missing from the pockets of the Sunderbans after Aila wrecked havoc in the island,” admitted a senior police officer.

The recorded number of minors missing from Patharpratima in 2011 alone was 39 while this year, the number stands at 19 till date. NGOs, however, said that the actual number could be much higher.

“Many cases go unreported. Sometimes, parents keep mum as long as they get money. Therefore, the actual number of missing children could be much higher. Moreover during raid and rescue we come across cases of minors who were not reported missing in the respective police stations ,” said Rishi Kant of Shakti Vahini, a Delhi-based NGO.

In majority of the cases, parents themselves send their children with these ‘agencies’. They inform the police only when they fail to communicate with their children. However, police have been successful is rescuing some such children. “I fell into the trap of a neighbour who took me away on the pretext of giving me a job. I smelt a rat only when he confined me in a house in some nearby town. I shiver at the very thought of those tormenting days,” said a 18 year-old who was rescued by the police about six months ago.

As the girl broke down narrating her past ordeal in her Dholahat hut, DSP Papiya Sultana of the anti-trafficking unit of the district assured the girl of support. Egged on by the police, the girl completed Class XII this year. Police now plans to enroll her in computer training programme. The girl is now looking ahead to live a new life.

“I only know what I went through during my seven year stay in a Pune brothel. But I bore everything silently as there was no escape,” recounted Reshma. She now in her twenties however is back home after a police rescued her. On her tips police also nabbed the woman who ran the brothel and rescued six more girls hailing from different parts of south 24 Parganas.

We are not encouraging sex workers, Supreme Court clarifies

NATIONAL LEGAL RESEARCH DESK

NEW DELHI: The Supreme Court today modified one of its order on welfare and rehabilitation of sex workers on the Centre’s submissions that the last year’s order gave an impression that it seeks to legalize prostitution. Allaying the Centre’s fears that it was giving its seal of approval to prostitution, a special bench of justices Altamas Kabir and Gyan Sudha Misra modified its earlier order, saying “the modification shall not be construed that by this order any encouragement is being given to prostitution.”

Modifying its earlier order, the bench clarified that it would only examine the “conditions conducive for sex workers to work with dignity in accordance with provisions of Article 21 of the Constitution.” It added it was keen that sex workers should be given opportunity to avail rehabilitation measures of the government and other agencies for them.While adjudicating a petition for rehabilitation of former sex workers, the apex court had on July 19, 2011 framed three terms of reference.

Appointing a broad-based panel to look into the matter, the apex court by its July 2011 order had formulated three questions related to prevention of trafficking, rehabilitation of sex workers who wish to leave the sex work and “conditions conducive for sex workers who wish to continue working as sex workers with dignity.”On the Centre’s submission that the third term gave an impression that prostitution has been sought to be legalised, the apex court modified it to read as “conducive for sex workers to live with dignity in accordance with the provisions of Article 21 of the Constitution”.

“The above modification shall not be construed that by this order any encouragement is being given to prostitution,” the bench added. Justice Sudha also observed, “While we do not wish to encourage sex trade we would emphasise rehabilitation of sex workers for which we had taken the issue. “We wish to add although the sex workers have right to live with dignity. There has to be collective endeavours by courts and sex workers to give up flesh trade in case they are given alternative platform on employment.”

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Concern over health of human trafficking victims

Concern over health of human trafficking victims

DEVESH PANDEY IN THE HINDU

Alarming trend of some mysterious drug being administered to minor girls trafficked into the Capital

An alarming trend of some mysterious drug being administered to minor girls trafficked into the Capital from West Bengal, primarily to be forced into prostitution, has raised serious concerns over the mental and physical health of the victims of human trafficking.

The latest case is that of 17-year-old Wahida (name changed) from South 24 Parganas, who was smuggled into the city by an acquaintance of her lover’s brother and sold to a brothel on G.B. Road in Central Delhi about a week ago. “Having completed my Class X, I had gone to get myself enrolled with a nurse training school where Siraj, an acquaintance of my lover Nasir’s brother, met me. He took me to an eating joint where we had some food, after which I lost my senses. My body was functioning properly, but I could not utter a single word. What happened thereafter I cannot recall. It seems he made me consume food laced with some drugs,” said Wahida, daughter of a rickshaw puller.

Jitendra Nagpal, Head of the Department of the Institute of Mental Health and Lifeskills at Moolchand Hospital, said: “It could be some psychotropic that alters the functioning of the mind, declines overall function and impacts short-term memory altering the perception and emotion. These could also be illegally procured mind modifying agents like opioids or cannabinoids, making the person unable to control his/her behaviour. It at times makes the person vulnerable to suggestions by the perpetrator of the crime.” Dr. Nagpal said those under the influence of such a drug may lose their senses and are unable to later recall what exactly transpired with them.The next thing Wahida remembers is that she was at the New Delhi railway station. “When I confronted Siraj asking why he brought me to Delhi, he initially claimed that he wanted to marry me. I objected and urged him to take me back home, but he forcibly took me to a house where he beat me when I offered resistance. He then sold me off to a brothel where I was raped and mentally tortured,” she said.

Soon after the victim was brought to the brothel, non-government organisation Shakti Vahini got a tip-off that a minor girl had been forced into prostitution. “We immediately contacted the Kamla Market police, which raided the brothel and rescued the victim. Subsequently we alerted the West Bengal Police, which had received a complaint from the girl’s father a day ago. The girl was produced before a Child Welfare Committee. A case has now been registered and a police team headed by Sub-Inspector Bishwadev Roy, comprising two women police constables, is here along with the girl’s father to take her back to her native place,” said Rishi Kant of Shakti Vahini.

Mr. Kant said a similar modus operandi was employed by human traffickers in a recent case wherein a 16-year-old girl was brought to the Capital from Sonarpur in South 24 Parganas and pushed into the flesh trade. The girl, who was rescued later and is presently here for cross-examination before a city court, said she was also drugged before being trafficked.

Expressing shock, Sanjay Gupta of NGO Chetna said: “We have come across a large number of cases were children are trafficked into the Capital from States like Bihar and forced to become drug addicts. Under the influence of drugs, they commit crime and are also made to beg on streets. They are usually administered white/correction fluid and once they get addicted to it, they obey their handlers for their daily dose.”

Stating that presently there was lack of data on the subject of substance abuse among children and its repercussions, Mr. Gupta said a nationwide study was being undertaken by a committee in 142 districts across 27 States in coordination with the All India Institute of Medical Sciences under the supervision of the National Commission for Protection of Child Rights.

Six minors among 14 rescued from brothels

TIMES OF INDIA

PUNE: The Pune crime branch has rescued 14 women including six minors from two brothels in Budhwar Peth area. The police have arrested five brothel owners under prevention of immoral trafficking act (PITA). The social security cell of the crime branch led by senior police inspector Bhanupratap Barge made the arrests.

Barge told the TOI that he received a tip-off the minor girls were forced into prostitution in some brothels in the Budhwar Peth area. “We raided a brothel in a new building in Budhwar Peth and rescued four women including two minors,” Barge said.

He said that one of the minors was from Bangladesh. The police arrested two women for allegedly running brothel. “They have been identified as Puja Tamang and Maili Tamang,” Barge said. Barge said that the police also raided another brothel in the Sapna building in Budhwar Peth and rescued 10 women including four minors. “We have arrested three suspects in this regard. They have been identified as Shankara Nayak, Kajal Sardar and Bilkis Shaikh all from Sapna building,” Barge said.

Separate cases have been registered against the suspects with the Faraskhana police station. The investigating team comprised police sub-inspector Ashwini Jagtap, police constables Dattatreya Nikam, Kernath Kamble, Shashikant Shinde, Ajit Dhumal, Sandip Holkar and Sohanlal Chutele.

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‘Kidnapped at 10, sold as bride’

HINDUSTAN TIMES

A racket of throwing minor girls into flesh trade under the cover of marriage has come to light.

Kidnapped and sold-off to middle-aged men, the girls were married on an on to customers who made deals with Mansa’s Shinder Pal Kaur, a minor, 13, rescued from the woman’s house here on Saturday, has claimed.

A young social worker who spotted the crime on social network website Facebook saved the girl with the help of her mother and the neighbours of suspects Shinder Pal Kaur and her husband, Gurmail Singh of the Home Guards. “The suspects killed two girls and forced three others into prostitution,” the victim has stated. The police tried to hide this in the first-information report.

It wasn’t easy to lodge the case. “Two people abducted a girl from Ludhiana and kept her in the house of Shinder Pal Kaur,” the police wrote in the first-information report on June 30. “The woman saved her and then only kept the minor for three years without going to the police.” Under public pressure now, the police have slapped Sections 366-A (kidnapping, abduction, compelling a woman for marriage) and 363 (kidnapping) of the Indian Penal Code (IPC) on couple Shinder Pal Kaur and Gurmail Singh.

House of horrors

Navjot Kaur, member of the Guru Kirpa Welfare Organisation, is the social worker who rescued a child from sexual exploitation. “Shinder Pal Kaur didn’t save me, rather she plotted my kidnapping,” the rescued Ludhiana girl told a news channel (HT has the footage) on Saturday. “The suspects killed two girls and forced three others into prostitution. I was thrashed, and for the past three years, forbidden to go near the window.”

Switching homes

From Ludhiana, Shinder Pal Kaur, brought her to Maur town of Bathinda’s district, from where they moved to Joga and now to Mansa a few days ago, the minor has stated. “I am 13, but my captors told me to claim I was 15,” she said. “I heard Shinder Pal Kaur striking a deal for me over telephone for Rs. 10,000. God sent Navjot Kaur over at the right time.”

The one who escaped

A woman, 20, is second victim to have surfaced since the exposé. “I had lost my parents at 13 when Shinder Pal Kaur, on the pretext of giving me shelter, sold me to Harmail Singh of Bappiana village in Mansa district,” she said. “She sold me again to Gurpreet Singh of Dabwali and then again to Harmail Singh. A year ago, I escaped. I gave birth to two children. My son, 6, is from Harmail.”

“The suspects (Shinder Pal Kaur and Gurmail Singh) killed my elder sister, Soni, by giving her drug injections,” said the woman. “They would beat up Soni to force her into flesh trade. I got here on coming to know their dirty secret was out. Once, I had also tried to reach the police, but Shinder Pal Kaur had got me attacked.”

When Navjot Kaur brought the matter to the Mansa Sadar station house officer (SHO), the police took the victim to her parents in Ludhiana, who being poor labourers, agreed not to register a case. The social worker then approached the senior superintendent of police at Mansa, Harpreet Singh, who marked a department inquiry against assistant sub-inspector Labh Singh and additional SHO Rajinder Singh.

Caught on Facebook

“A source on Facebook pointed me to the deal for a minor girl,” said whistleblower Navjot Kaur. “I took my mother to the house of Shinder Pal Kaur and rescued the girl with the help of the woman’s neighbours. We went to the police, who only took the victim to Ludhiana, from where she had been kidnapped three years ago.”

Two days later, the police did agree to lodge a case against Shinderpal Kaur, but wrote in the FIR that she had first saved the girl from kidnappers living in her house and then kept her in. “If this is true,” said Navjot Kaur, “why did Shinder Pal Kaur not inform the police or send the victim to her parents.”

The Mansa SSP accepted no telephone call from the reporter but Sadar SHO Rajinder Singh did agree to speak. “We have laid kidnapping, abduction and other charges against Shinder Pal Kaur and her husband, Gurmail Singh,” said the officer. “The victim, now 13, was kidnapped at the hands of two labourers, and Shinder Pal Kaur saved her, though she did not inform the police. We arrested the kidnappers on June 30.”

A latest scandal in Rohtak town of Haryana had exposed the sexual exploitation of girls in a shelter. There too, caretakers had allegedly sold off children as brides many times over.

HINDUSTAN TIMES

‘Escort services new form of prostitution’

TIMES OF INDIA

PANAJI:  A need for tackling human trafficking at the root with help from states where victims are sourced is required, felt the ‘consultation of service providers from Goa and source states to combat human trafficking for commercial sexual exploitation in Goa’, a seminar on human trafficking held at the secretariat hall in Porvorim.

Addressing a session on ‘Process of rescue in Goa and need for support of source state to prosecute traffickers’, crime branch police inspector Sunita Sawant said “Escort services is the new form of prostitution. Escorts give all sorts of ‘comfort’ to tourists.”

“The escorts (who are usually victims of trafficking) come in batches from north east for 5-6 days…They are usually lured with jobs in the hotel industry,” she added. Sawant felt, “Transit and source state trafficking offenders need to be brought to book.”

Narrating the difficulties faced in convicting offenders, Sawant said in one instance the rescued girls fled from the protective home. Hence, they could not get them to testify in court and the offenders were subsequently acquitted.

She narrated another instance wherein a Bangladeshi girl who was trafficked initially told officials she hailed from West Bengal. She revealed the truth to a counselor after three months, Sawant added. Police inspector Gurudas Kadam cited an incident in Anjuna where an Andhra Pradesh-based businessman was found dead after a conference where businessmen exploited trafficked girls in a hotel.

The hotel did not maintain any record of the girls entering the premises nor the rooms used for the illicit activity. The hotel manager was also involved, he added.He said many times the victims do not cooperate and hence authorities need greater help from source states (from where victims are trafficked) to eradicate the problem of trafficking from the root.A counsellor at one of the state-run shelters where victims are rehabilitated said, “The girls are traumatized. They want to go home… Sometimes, the victims become hostile.”

Call girl racket run by foreigner busted

TIMES OF INDIA

CALANGUTE: Calangute police on Friday busted a major call girl racket being operated over the internet by a Kyrgyzstan woman and her Indian husband from a place in Candolim.

According to SP (north) Vijay Singh, a police team led by Calangute PI Nolasco Raposo was on routine patrol at around 5am in Baga when they noticed a crowd gathered around a group of people fighting and causing a traffic jam. On suspicion they brought the two women and men who were fighting to Calangute police station. On interrogation, they learnt that it involved prostitution. The PI called an NGO and in the presence of their representative recorded the girls’ statements. One of the girls, aged 20, hails from Delhi, while the other, aged 24, is a native of Mehrun, Rajasthan. The girls said they were being trafficked by a woman from Kyrgyzstan who was staying at Ximer, Candolim. The police conducted a raid there and arrested Kyrgyz national, Valentina Shol, 29, along with her husband Alim Ullah, 31, a native of Jaipur. It is learnt that Shol was in India in 2011 too.

Another of the couple’s accomplice, Cholpon Erzhanova, also from Kyrgyzstan is reported to be absconding. According to police, the duo operates a website http://www.goaescorts.com through which they get their customers. Once in Goa, the customers are contacted over the phone to finalize arrangements. Police said the rates ranged between Rs 6,000 and Rs 16,000 per girl. The police seized foreign currency consisting of $ 11,340 and Euro 500, besides Rs 20,740, two passports, one laptop, seven cellphones and an air ticket.

The accused customers who were arrested are Anant Saurabh, 26, of New Delhi and Charit C, 29, of Bangalore. The girls would accompany their customers to five-star hotels, nightclubs, and casinos in Goa. The rescued victims have been sent to the protective home in Merces.

The police team consisted of Raposo, PSI Sherif Jacques, PSI Laxi Amonkar, LPSI Devyani Naik, HC Subhash Malvankar, LPC Sheetal Kinalekar, LPC Darshan Sawant, LPC Umika Poke and constable Navanath Chari. Police have registered an offence under Sections 3, 4, 5 and 7 of the Immoral Traffic (Prevention) Act. Further investigations are in progress.

Trafficked girl rescued

TIMES OF INDIA

NEW DELHI: A minor girl was rescued from south Delhi after she alleged that she was sexually and physically assaulted by a trafficker. The girl was produced before Child Welfare Committee, which asked Delhi Police to register a case. The 17-year-old girl is a native of Tony Soong village, Darjeeling. On Tuesday, she was rescued by cops and NGO Shakti Vahini from Vasant Gaon, where she was provided temporary shelter by a Nepali family. “The girl was brought to Delhi four months ago on the pretext of marriage. The girl was being sexually and physically assaulted by the trafficker at Munirka,” said the CWC order. “To save her life, the girl ran away and was given protection by a family in Vasant Gaon,” the order adds. CWC noted that the girl was duped by a friend who gave her the number of one Satyanarayan from Siliguri. “According to the minor, her friend had given her the number of Satyanarayan. She left Darjeeling and went to Siliguri alone. After meeting Satyanarayan, they came to Delhi,” the order said. “The girl along with Satyanarayan was living in Munirka. After a week, Satyanarayan started exploiting her physically and sexually.” the order further stated.

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