Child Trafficking In Bengal

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.

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.

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.

West Bengal CID today visited BJP Rajya Sabha MP Roopa Ganguly house in Kolkata for questioning in connection with the Jalpaiguri child trafficking case.

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.

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.

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...

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.

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...

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...

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 ...

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...

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.

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.

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...

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.

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.

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.

West Bengal CID today visited BJP Rajya Sabha MP Roopa Ganguly house in Kolkata for questioning in connection with the Jalpaiguri child trafficking case.

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.

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.

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...

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.

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...

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...

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 ...

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...

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.

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.

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...