Assam Human Trafficking

The National Investigation Agency (NIA) has filed a charge sheet against 24 accused, including five from Bangladesh and Myanmar, in a case related to human trafficking in Assam, an official said on Tuesday.

At least six minor girls from Assam have been rescued from the clutches of human traffickers in various parts of the country, a senior police officer said.

The National Investigation Agency has filed charge sheets against six people from Assam and Meghalaya for their involvement in the alleged trafficking of Rohingya and Bangladeshi women into India using fake documents.

The rackets were active in the border areas of Assam, West Bengal, Meghalaya and other parts of the country, they added.

Two weeks after 42 trafficked people from Assam, including women and children, were rescued from Sikkim, the police freed 13 more today. Racketeers had targeted them exploiting their poor economic conditions worsened by the Covid pandemic

Days after 42 people were rescued from human traffickers, a senior Sashastra Seema Bal (SSB) officer has claimed that most of the people in Assam are migrating to other states in search of better avenues rather than being trafficked.

Busting a major interstate human trafficking racket, a team from the Assam Police rescued 40 children and 2 adults belonging to Chirang district of the state's Bodoland Territorial region.

The Assam police have rescued nine girls from Kerala who were trafficked by human traffickers.

A big human organ trafficking racket that persuaded villagers in debt to sell their kidneys has been busted in Assam. Three people have been arrested, the police said.

Assam Chief Minister Himanta Biswa Sarma said Union Home Minister Amit Shah has asked him to take tough action against drugs, human trafficking and cattle smuggling.

The Assam police have busted a human trafficking racket and arrested seven persons -- six of them transgenders -- who have been accused of forcibly castrating young children and selling them in Delhi.

Two human traffickers, including a woman, were arrested from the Guwahati railway station and three minor girls rescued, as part of a special drive, officials said on Tuesday.

The Kotwali Police has rescued a 15-year-old girl, who is from Assam, and nabbed six people who were allegedly involved in human trafficking, a police officer said.

From second place to first should be something to celebrate. But not in the case of West Bengal which has recorded the highest number of cases of human trafficking in 2016, replacing Assam which had aced the list for the previous year.

Earlier this month, 40 children were rescued from a Mumbai fish canning factory by a local NGO. But Assam's human trafficking crisis runs deep.

The National Investigation Agency (NIA) has filed a charge sheet against 24 accused, including five from Bangladesh and Myanmar, in a case related to human trafficking in Assam, an official said on Tuesday.

At least six minor girls from Assam have been rescued from the clutches of human traffickers in various parts of the country, a senior police officer said.

The National Investigation Agency has filed charge sheets against six people from Assam and Meghalaya for their involvement in the alleged trafficking of Rohingya and Bangladeshi women into India using fake documents.

The rackets were active in the border areas of Assam, West Bengal, Meghalaya and other parts of the country, they added.

Two weeks after 42 trafficked people from Assam, including women and children, were rescued from Sikkim, the police freed 13 more today. Racketeers had targeted them exploiting their poor economic conditions worsened by the Covid pandemic

Days after 42 people were rescued from human traffickers, a senior Sashastra Seema Bal (SSB) officer has claimed that most of the people in Assam are migrating to other states in search of better avenues rather than being trafficked.

Busting a major interstate human trafficking racket, a team from the Assam Police rescued 40 children and 2 adults belonging to Chirang district of the state's Bodoland Territorial region.

The Assam police have rescued nine girls from Kerala who were trafficked by human traffickers.

A big human organ trafficking racket that persuaded villagers in debt to sell their kidneys has been busted in Assam. Three people have been arrested, the police said.

Assam Chief Minister Himanta Biswa Sarma said Union Home Minister Amit Shah has asked him to take tough action against drugs, human trafficking and cattle smuggling.

The Assam police have busted a human trafficking racket and arrested seven persons -- six of them transgenders -- who have been accused of forcibly castrating young children and selling them in Delhi.

Two human traffickers, including a woman, were arrested from the Guwahati railway station and three minor girls rescued, as part of a special drive, officials said on Tuesday.

The Kotwali Police has rescued a 15-year-old girl, who is from Assam, and nabbed six people who were allegedly involved in human trafficking, a police officer said.

From second place to first should be something to celebrate. But not in the case of West Bengal which has recorded the highest number of cases of human trafficking in 2016, replacing Assam which had aced the list for the previous year.

Earlier this month, 40 children were rescued from a Mumbai fish canning factory by a local NGO. But Assam's human trafficking crisis runs deep.