Sex TraffickingArchive 2008–2016

Sex Trafficking in Kolkata (2007)

A sex trafficking case from 2007 in Kolkata, India.

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What happened

the perpetrators were arrested by the Criminal Investigation Department on 2/16/07. On May 3, 2010 the two men and one woman traffickers were sentenced to 10 years in prison for t he trafficking and commercial sexual exploitation of three minor girls. The girls who were 12, 14 and 16 years of age had been lured by the traffickers from their rural villages in Nepal and W. Bengal with the prospect of legitimate work in Kilkata. Instead they were sold to the traffickers who forced them into having sex with as many as 12 customers per day.

Response and intervention

CID and International Justice Mission rescued the three girls, all minors that were being trafficked for sex by Criminal Investigation Department and the International Justice Mission. The IJM assisted CID throughout the case, including in locating the three victims and providing vital evidence on the basis of which the three victims were rescued and the perpetrators arrested. the minors were placed in aftercare homes where they have been receiving counseling and schooling and have been completely transformed since their rescue reports IJM social worker Rupa Chetri who has worked closely with all three former victims.

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Assam, West Bengal, India, 2011

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Ismail Ahmed Age: 32 from Nowagaon in Assam Babita Age: 25 Both of these individuals run an illegal placement agency, Ashok Chand. Ahmed was arrested on May 5 from Shakarpur, while he was allegedly trying to sell a minor girl for Rs 1.5 lakh to a decoy customer. During questioning, Ahmed told police that brokers and agents operating in Assam, West Bengal and areas near the Indo-Bangladesh border would send minors to Delhi with promises of a better life. Once here, they would be handed over to an illegal placement agency run by Babita. Seven minor girls and boys, employed as domestic helps, were rescued during the operation — conducted with the help of NGO Shakti Vahini. The traffickers followed two different modules. "Children between the ages of 11-15 were placed in domestic households. Those above 15, especially girls, were sold off in Delhi and Haryana. Girls brought from Bangladesh were promised jobs in modeling agencies. Extreme poverty often led their parents to accept the agents' propositions,'' said an officer. It was revealed that the children had no knowledge either any salary was being paid to them or being sent to their parents for the household work they performed. Most of them had no contact with their parents after coming to Delhi. "The agent was paid a sum of Rs 20,000 to 25,000 by Babita for each minor child. She in turn charged Rs 20,000 to 35,000 from the employer where the children were employed as an initial payment. Then an agreement of 11 months was drawn up with the employer for payment of monthly salary. The monthly salary that was paid was also misappropriated by Babita and it never reached their parents," Mr Chand said.

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