Delhi Police claim to have come up with a novel idea to help locate missing children. Claiming that they are unable to trace missing children as their family members do not have their photographs, Delhi Police, with the help of an NGO, have started collecting data on children living in slums. Under the scheme, police will collect children’s personal information and also get their photographs clicked, which will be handed over to the families.
Girl rescued from brothel returns from Bengal to depose before court
Almost two years after being rescued from a red-light area of the Capital, where she was sold to a brothel owner by human traffickers, a minor girl has travelled all the way back from West Bengal to seek justice for the physical and mental torture she was subjected to.
3 Jharkhand, Bengal girls rescued
DWIPAYAN GHOSH IN THE TIMES OF INDIA – MAY 5 , 2012
NEW DELHI: Delhi Police, under fire from the Child Welfare Committee for failing to trace trafficked girls, has rescued three girls from different parts of the capital. The girls from Jharkhand and West Bengal were brought to the city after being drugged and locked up inside toilets of express trains.
Delhi is the 'missing kids' capital of India as 14 children a day go untraced in the city
Delhi is dangerous – not only for a woman returning alone from a night shift, as the euphemism goes – but more so for children. As many as 14 kids go missing in the Capital daily, which is an alarming eight per cent of the national total for such cases.
The Union Labour & Employment Minister Shri Mallikarjun Kharge has informed the Rajya Sabha that the Government of India has banned employment of children below 14 years for dhabas and domestic work. As per 2001 census, the total number of working children between the age group 5-14 years in the country was 1.26 crore out of which 12 lakh children were working in hazardous occupations and processes including domestic workers, Dhabas/Restaurants etc.
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IMPHAL, April 18: Three children who were rescued from a centre in Uttar Pradesh were today re-united with their family members after their arrival from New Delhi this evening.
The three children from Choithar village, under Ukhrul Police Station have been rescued from India Hope Centre, Motipur, Bahraich, Uttar Pradesh by Shakti Vahini…
RAJ SHEKHAR IN THE TIMES OF INDIA
NEW DELHI: A placement agency owner was arrested on Tuesday in a human trafficking case where an 18-year-old woman was raped and forced to get an abortion. The main accused Rajesh who allegedly raped the woman, co-owns the placement agency in Sarita Vihar. He has been on the run since December.
SHALINI NARAYAN IN THE INDIAN EXPRESS
She winces at the thought of the trauma she went through over the past five months in a city that was alien to her. She was allegedly raped and threatened by her placement agency owner who brought her to the city for employment as a domestic help.
On Friday night, it was only after she started bleeding profusely and was rushed to a nearby clinic by the agency owner that the 18-year-old realised she was pregnant and was going through a miscarriage.
One in five domestic workers in the Capital report sexual abuse
They come to Delhi from the boondocks with dreams of a job, and most often with the hope of not going to bed on an empty stomach. Instead, they encounter an ugly reality – backbreaking work with no pay, little to eat, sexual abuse and physical assault.
The New Slaves
Debarshi Dasgupta in The Outlook
In her nine years as a nurse working with rescued domestic workers in Delhi, Mariamma K. thought she had seen the worst. That was until 2010, when she and her colleagues went to rescue a 17-year-old girl from a home in west Delhi. Sangeeta was found with bite marks all over her body.
