Child Trafficking In India

The Philippines said Sunday it had arrested a pastor wanted in the United States for child sex trafficking, two weeks into a massive police manhunt for the self-proclaimed "Appointed Son of God".

They were wailing with uncontrollable grief. Reason: their babies were taken away by the police because they were not the biological parents but had bought the babies even though they were bringing them up as their own.

The Mumbai police have busted a child trafficking racket and arrested a doctor and six others involved in selling an infant and a toddler, an official said on Sunday.

The Central Bureau of Investigation (CBI) raided several locations across Delhi in connection with child trafficking. Three newborn babies were rescued from a house located in the Keshavpuram area of the national capital

From the daily struggles of autorickshaw drivers to trafficking and abuse of women to blatant use of child labour in hotels, Durga puja committees in Kolkata have highlighted different social issues to generate awareness among people.

A 22-year-old Indian national was arrested from the Bara district in southern Nepal on the charges of trafficking two Nepali children, including an infant, to India in a sack, police said on Monday.

Uttar Pradesh, Bihar and Andhra Pradesh are the top three states with the maximum number of children trafficked between 2016 and 2022, while Delhi has seen an alarming 68 per cent rise from pre- to post-Covid times, according to a new study by an NGO

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.

Nine children, who were illegally employed at a garmentfactory in Noida, have been rescued by the Anti-Human Trafficking Unit (AHTU) of the Gautam Buddh Nagar police, officials said on Wednesday.

An owner of a private hospital and three women were arrested for their alleged involvement in child trafficking, police said on Tuesday.

The Delhi Police has busted a syndicate of child traffickers and arrested eight people, including six women and rescued a 7.5-year-old child, said an official on Friday.

A three-month-old girl was sold by her father for Rs 70,000, and 11 people were found to have been involved in the case, said the police, adding that all the accused have been apprehended.

Eleven were arrested for allegedly kidnapping a 4-month-old girl and selling her for Rs 4.8 lakh to a Tamil Nadu-based civil engineer, an official said, adding that the infant has been rescued by two Mumbai police teams from Coimbatore in Tamil Nadu.

Congress in Kerala on Wednesday accused Chief Minister Pinarayi Vijayan of "conspiring" to facilitate the "trafficking" of the child of former SFI leader Anupama Chandran to neighbouring Andhra Pradesh in the name of adoption, without her consent.

The Bandra Police in Maharashtra's Mumbai on Saturday arrested four people including a woman on charges of kidnapping a 10-month-old from Mahim causeway and trafficking the child in Telangana for over Rs 3 lakh, the Mumbai Police said.

The Philippines said Sunday it had arrested a pastor wanted in the United States for child sex trafficking, two weeks into a massive police manhunt for the self-proclaimed "Appointed Son of God".

They were wailing with uncontrollable grief. Reason: their babies were taken away by the police because they were not the biological parents but had bought the babies even though they were bringing them up as their own.

The Mumbai police have busted a child trafficking racket and arrested a doctor and six others involved in selling an infant and a toddler, an official said on Sunday.

The Central Bureau of Investigation (CBI) raided several locations across Delhi in connection with child trafficking. Three newborn babies were rescued from a house located in the Keshavpuram area of the national capital

From the daily struggles of autorickshaw drivers to trafficking and abuse of women to blatant use of child labour in hotels, Durga puja committees in Kolkata have highlighted different social issues to generate awareness among people.

A 22-year-old Indian national was arrested from the Bara district in southern Nepal on the charges of trafficking two Nepali children, including an infant, to India in a sack, police said on Monday.

Uttar Pradesh, Bihar and Andhra Pradesh are the top three states with the maximum number of children trafficked between 2016 and 2022, while Delhi has seen an alarming 68 per cent rise from pre- to post-Covid times, according to a new study by an NGO

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.

Nine children, who were illegally employed at a garmentfactory in Noida, have been rescued by the Anti-Human Trafficking Unit (AHTU) of the Gautam Buddh Nagar police, officials said on Wednesday.

An owner of a private hospital and three women were arrested for their alleged involvement in child trafficking, police said on Tuesday.

The Delhi Police has busted a syndicate of child traffickers and arrested eight people, including six women and rescued a 7.5-year-old child, said an official on Friday.

A three-month-old girl was sold by her father for Rs 70,000, and 11 people were found to have been involved in the case, said the police, adding that all the accused have been apprehended.

Eleven were arrested for allegedly kidnapping a 4-month-old girl and selling her for Rs 4.8 lakh to a Tamil Nadu-based civil engineer, an official said, adding that the infant has been rescued by two Mumbai police teams from Coimbatore in Tamil Nadu.

Congress in Kerala on Wednesday accused Chief Minister Pinarayi Vijayan of "conspiring" to facilitate the "trafficking" of the child of former SFI leader Anupama Chandran to neighbouring Andhra Pradesh in the name of adoption, without her consent.

The Bandra Police in Maharashtra's Mumbai on Saturday arrested four people including a woman on charges of kidnapping a 10-month-old from Mahim causeway and trafficking the child in Telangana for over Rs 3 lakh, the Mumbai Police said.