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26 Children Rescued In Hyderabad, 8 Arrested For Child Trafficking
As many as 26 children hailing from West Bengal and Jharkhand, who were being brought to Hyderabad allegedly to work as labourers were rescued and eight "traffickers" were arrested at the Secunderabad Railway Station here, the Telangana Police said.
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Bengal School Principal, Teacher Arrested For Child Trafficking
The principal and a teacher of a Jawahar Navodaya Vidyalaya (JNV) in West Bengal's Bankura district were among eight people arrested for allegedly attempting to traffic five children, police said on Monday.
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Five Arrested Over Charges Of Child Trafficking At Bengal's Nursing Home
Five people, including the owner of a private nursing home in North 24 Parganas district, were arrested on Saturday on the charge of being involved in the trafficking of an 11-day-old child, the police said.
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BJP's Roopa Ganguly Questioned By CID In Child Trafficking Case
West Bengal CID today visited BJP Rajya Sabha MP Roopa Ganguly house in Kolkata for questioning in connection with the Jalpaiguri child trafficking case.
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BJP Leaders Roopa Ganguly, Kailash Vijayvargiya Summoned By Bengal Police
After Bashirhat, a new front opened on Thursday in the BJP-Trinamool Congress war in Bengal with the state police summoning BJP lawmaker Roopa Ganguly and national secretary Kailash Vijayvargiya for questioning in a child trafficking case.
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Kailash Vijayvargiya Seeks CBI Probe Into Child Trafficking Case In West Bengal
BJP national general secretary Kailash Vijayvargiya has demanded a CBI probe into the child trafficking case in north Bengal to find out the real culprits.
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Three States Where Women And Child Trafficking Is Highest In India
New Delhi: Almost 20,000 women and children were victims of human trafficking in India in 2016, a rise of nearly 25 per cent from the previous year, government data showed. The Ministry of Women and Child Development told the parliament that 19,223 women and children were trafficked last year against 15,448 in 2015, with the highest number of vic...
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Jalpaiguri Child Trafficking Case: Accused Officers Sent To Police Custody
A court in Jalpaiguri has given the police six days to interrogate Darjeeling's District Child Protection Officer Mrinal Ghosh and Child Welfare Committee member Dr Debashish Chandra in connection with the baby selling racket in West Bengal.
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Cops Turned Sanyasis To Catch BJP's Juhi Choudhury In West Bengal Child Racket
There was high drama before the police arrested Juhi Choudhury on Tuesday night, a BJP leader, in connection with the baby selling racket in West Bengal. The CID had been able to track her down to a house in Kharibari block of Darjeeling, just a 10-minute drive from the Indo-Nepal border. The information was that Ms Chowdhury - who had slipped into...
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BJP Backs Leader Named in West Bengal Child Adoption Racket
From Juhi Chowdhury to Roopa Ganguly, the West Bengal BJP on Wednesday rallied around all party leaders named by the woman who headed the NGO that has been accused of selling children over the past few years. Chandana Chakraborty, chairperson of the NGO that ran a child-care shelter 'Bimala Sishu Griho', is at the centre of what the state police in...
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Child Trafficking Case: West Bengal BJP Leader Juhi Chowdhury Arrested
A West Bengal BJP women's wing leader Juhi Chowdhury has been arrested for pulling strings to get government funding and licences for a local NGO that was busted for running a child trafficking racket in November last. Chandana Chakraborty who headed the NGO that ran the child care home in Jalpaiguri 600 km from Kolkata had told the police that Ms ...
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Trapped In Bengal’s Dying Tea Gardens, Workers Lose Children To Traffickers
By Anuradha Nagaraj Jalpaiguri: Fagua Ooraon was running late for work when traffickers stopped outside his hut and said they were taking his teenage daughter with them to the city for better employment. He said ‘no’ and went to work. When he got home that evening, his daughter was gone. “They took her anyway,” he said, sitting in his home...
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Mumbai Police Bust Baby Trafficking Racket As More Children Feared At Risk
Mumbai police have arrested a gang of six people accused of stealing babies or convincing single women to sell their children in the latest bust in a series of baby trafficking rackets.
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West Bengal Chief Minister Mamata Banerjee To Form Panel Against Child Trafficking
West Bengal Chief Minister Mamata Banerjee today announced in the Assembly that a committee under the chairmanship of Parliamentary Affairs Minister Partha Chatterjee would be formed to prevent child trafficking in the state.
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Unmarried Mothers Prime Targets For Baby Traffickers In Bengal
As the West Bengal CID investigates the baby selling racket in the state in which babies were transported in biscuit cartons, there have been arrests in two more districts including West Midnapore and Burdwan. The state is now looking to plug loopholes as more and more cases of baby selling are identified. A pattern has emerged in the investigation...
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26 Children Rescued In Hyderabad, 8 Arrested For Child Trafficking
As many as 26 children hailing from West Bengal and Jharkhand, who were being brought to Hyderabad allegedly to work as labourers were rescued and eight "traffickers" were arrested at the Secunderabad Railway Station here, the Telangana Police said.
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Bengal School Principal, Teacher Arrested For Child Trafficking
The principal and a teacher of a Jawahar Navodaya Vidyalaya (JNV) in West Bengal's Bankura district were among eight people arrested for allegedly attempting to traffic five children, police said on Monday.
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Five Arrested Over Charges Of Child Trafficking At Bengal's Nursing Home
Five people, including the owner of a private nursing home in North 24 Parganas district, were arrested on Saturday on the charge of being involved in the trafficking of an 11-day-old child, the police said.
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BJP's Roopa Ganguly Questioned By CID In Child Trafficking Case
West Bengal CID today visited BJP Rajya Sabha MP Roopa Ganguly house in Kolkata for questioning in connection with the Jalpaiguri child trafficking case.
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BJP Leaders Roopa Ganguly, Kailash Vijayvargiya Summoned By Bengal Police
After Bashirhat, a new front opened on Thursday in the BJP-Trinamool Congress war in Bengal with the state police summoning BJP lawmaker Roopa Ganguly and national secretary Kailash Vijayvargiya for questioning in a child trafficking case.
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Kailash Vijayvargiya Seeks CBI Probe Into Child Trafficking Case In West Bengal
BJP national general secretary Kailash Vijayvargiya has demanded a CBI probe into the child trafficking case in north Bengal to find out the real culprits.
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Three States Where Women And Child Trafficking Is Highest In India
New Delhi: Almost 20,000 women and children were victims of human trafficking in India in 2016, a rise of nearly 25 per cent from the previous year, government data showed. The Ministry of Women and Child Development told the parliament that 19,223 women and children were trafficked last year against 15,448 in 2015, with the highest number of vic...
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Jalpaiguri Child Trafficking Case: Accused Officers Sent To Police Custody
A court in Jalpaiguri has given the police six days to interrogate Darjeeling's District Child Protection Officer Mrinal Ghosh and Child Welfare Committee member Dr Debashish Chandra in connection with the baby selling racket in West Bengal.
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Cops Turned Sanyasis To Catch BJP's Juhi Choudhury In West Bengal Child Racket
There was high drama before the police arrested Juhi Choudhury on Tuesday night, a BJP leader, in connection with the baby selling racket in West Bengal. The CID had been able to track her down to a house in Kharibari block of Darjeeling, just a 10-minute drive from the Indo-Nepal border. The information was that Ms Chowdhury - who had slipped into...
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BJP Backs Leader Named in West Bengal Child Adoption Racket
From Juhi Chowdhury to Roopa Ganguly, the West Bengal BJP on Wednesday rallied around all party leaders named by the woman who headed the NGO that has been accused of selling children over the past few years. Chandana Chakraborty, chairperson of the NGO that ran a child-care shelter 'Bimala Sishu Griho', is at the centre of what the state police in...
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Child Trafficking Case: West Bengal BJP Leader Juhi Chowdhury Arrested
A West Bengal BJP women's wing leader Juhi Chowdhury has been arrested for pulling strings to get government funding and licences for a local NGO that was busted for running a child trafficking racket in November last. Chandana Chakraborty who headed the NGO that ran the child care home in Jalpaiguri 600 km from Kolkata had told the police that Ms ...
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Trapped In Bengal’s Dying Tea Gardens, Workers Lose Children To Traffickers
By Anuradha Nagaraj Jalpaiguri: Fagua Ooraon was running late for work when traffickers stopped outside his hut and said they were taking his teenage daughter with them to the city for better employment. He said ‘no’ and went to work. When he got home that evening, his daughter was gone. “They took her anyway,” he said, sitting in his home...
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Mumbai Police Bust Baby Trafficking Racket As More Children Feared At Risk
Mumbai police have arrested a gang of six people accused of stealing babies or convincing single women to sell their children in the latest bust in a series of baby trafficking rackets.
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West Bengal Chief Minister Mamata Banerjee To Form Panel Against Child Trafficking
West Bengal Chief Minister Mamata Banerjee today announced in the Assembly that a committee under the chairmanship of Parliamentary Affairs Minister Partha Chatterjee would be formed to prevent child trafficking in the state.
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Unmarried Mothers Prime Targets For Baby Traffickers In Bengal
As the West Bengal CID investigates the baby selling racket in the state in which babies were transported in biscuit cartons, there have been arrests in two more districts including West Midnapore and Burdwan. The state is now looking to plug loopholes as more and more cases of baby selling are identified. A pattern has emerged in the investigation...
