Govt to launch website to fight human trafficking
The state home department will launch a special website dedicated to tackle human trafficking. The website will have information of Acts and amendments along with the latest orders of courts.
Principal secretary home JB Tubid said trafficking has become a serious problem and the state government wanted to tackle it very effectively. “In our endeavour to effectively tackle the menace we are going to launch a website which will have all details which will be useful for victims, prosecutors and NGOs,” said Tubid at the concluding function of three-day training programme for lawyers on human trafficking from Bihar, Jharkhand, Uttar Pradesh, Uttarakhand and Chhattisgarh.
Speaking on the occasion, National University for Study and Research in Law (NUSRL) vice-chancellor AK Koul said the need of the hour is to break the nexus between police, politicians and administrative officials to tackle human trafficking.
Sharing his experience of a project in which he worked with Delhi police in red light areas, Koul said hundreds of trafficked girls from Nepal and Bangladesh were brought to the national capital by agents. “Out of every 10 girl that reach the red light area, six are taken to foreign countries. Delhi is just a transit point. During the project I also came to know that the officers of local police station are involved in the crime,” he said.
Koul said he came to know of a similar nexus of politicians and traffickers in a case in Uttar Pradesh. “I was surprised that the district magistrate was not willing to issue arrest warrant against the accused. When he finally issued the warrant only middlemen were arrested who were just scapegoats,” Koul added.
The VC, who had also practiced in the Supreme Court, criticized the Union government for not taking action against officials who are guilty of keeping trafficked girls as domestic help. “Recently an Indian Foreign Service officer posted in the US admitted before the court of law there that he had kept a trafficked girl as domestic help. I was surprise that the government did not take any action against the officer even after he admitted to the crime,” said Koul.
