While cancelling the bail granted to thirteen accused persons in several cases involving inter-State trafficking of minors, the Supreme Court criticised and expressed its disappointment with how the State of Uttar Pradesh did not challenge the bail granted by the Allahabad High Court despite the matter involving crimes of a serious nature. We are thoroughly disappointed with the manner in...

New Delhi, Apr 15 (PTI) Taking a stern view of inter-state child trafficking rackets in the country, the Supreme Court on Monday cancelled the bail granted to 13 accused and said the "cry of the collective for justice, its desire for peace and harmony" couldn't be trivialised.
     "We direct the state government to ensure that the trafficked children are admitted in schools in accordance with the provisions of the Right of Children to Free and Compulsory Education Act, 2009 and continue to provide support for their education," a bench of Justices J B Pardiwala and R Mahadevan said.
     The top court noted trafficking in India had taken diverse forms -- each prevailing across states.
     "An overall analysis of trafficking patterns across states reiterates the prevalence of trafficking in large numbers with the number of cases sharply rising with time. What is of concern is the rapid spread of the problem with previously unknown factors getting embedded in the web of traffickers," it said.
     The bench said the changing trafficking patterns also brought "changes in the traffickers, their modus operandi, their manipulation of the victims and their understanding of the limitations in the criminal justice system".
     It found fault with the Allahabad High Court orders releasing the accused persons on bail.
     Considering the serious nature of the crime, the bench said the high court should not have ruled in favour of the accused persons.
     "We are sorry to say but the high court dealt with all the bail applications in a very callous manner. The outcome of this callous approach on the part of the high court has ultimately paved the way for many accused persons to abscond and thereby put the trial in jeopardy," it said.
     The "least" the high court could have done was to impose a condition on each of the accused to mark their presence once a week at the police station concerned, the bench added.
     The bench said the life of an individual living in a society governed by the rule of the law had to be regulated.      Such regulations which were the source in law, subserve the social balance and function as a significant instrument to protect human rights and security of the collective, it added.
     Laws, the top court said, were enacted for the collective's obedience so that the society's members lived peacefully.
     The accused were stated to be a "big threat to the society" for exhibiting a tendency of committing child trafficking wherever they went in the country.
     The top court was critical of the Uttar Pradesh government conduct saying, it was "thoroughly disappointed" with the manner in which the situation was handled.
     "Why did the state not do anything for all this period of time? Why did the State not deem fit to challenge the orders of bail passed by the high court? The state unfortunately has exhibited no seriousness worth the name."
     The top court directed the accused persons to surrender and expedited the trial against them in three FIRs registered against them in Varanasi.
     "We direct the chief judicial magistrate district Varanasi and the additional chief judicial magistrate court number 5, District Varanasi to commit all the three criminal cases…of this judgment to the sessions court, within a period of two weeks from today without fail," it said.
     The bench said as all the criminal cases were being committed to the sessions court, the trial court concerned should proceed to frame charges within a week from then on.
     The trial court was ordered to take immediate steps to secure the presence of the accused in case it found that the accused persons had absconded or there whereabouts were not known.
     The 95-page verdict was authored by Justice Pardiwala, who said once charges were framed by the trial court in individual cases, the trial court should proceed with the recording of the evidence, preferably on a day-to-day basis and complete the trial within six months.
     The bench directed the state to appoint three special public prosecutors for conducting trials and said police protection should provided to the victims and their families.
     The police was granted two months to trace the absconding accused persons and produce them before the court concerned at the earliest.
     The bench said at trial's end, the trial court concerned should pass appropriate orders on compensation to the victims under the provisions of the BNSS 2023 including under the Uttar Pradesh Rani Laxmi Bai Mahila Evam Bal Samman Kosh managed by the Land Welfare Committee.

NEW DELHI, Apr 15: The Supreme Court on Monday warned parents in the country about the dangers of child trafficking and asked them to be extremely vigilant with their children.

A bench of Justices J B Pardiwala and R Mahadevan, which took a stern view of the inter-state child trafficking rackets, said long delays in the adoption process had led to an increase in the demand for children declared legally fit for adoptions, giving rise to children being trafficked for adoption.

“We want to convey a message to one and all, more particularly the parents across the country that they should remain extremely vigilant and careful with their children. A slight carelessness or negligence or laxity on their part may prove to be extremely costly,” the bench said.

The verdict went on, “Over the years, demands for the adoption of children have increased and there is a significant waiting period for prospective parents to adopt. At any given point in time, there are parents waiting for at least 3-4 years to adopt. Even after being processed and children being matched, the necessary verification processes also take a long time.”

While cancelling the bail granted to thirteen accused persons in several cases involving inter-State trafficking of minors, the Supreme Court criticised and expressed its disappointment with how the State of Uttar Pradesh did not challenge the bail granted by the Allahabad High Court despite the matter involving crimes of a serious nature. We are thoroughly disappointed with the manner in...

21-year-old Siri is adopted from India and lives in Sandnes. She feels that she will not get any peace until she finds her biological mother. The host Tore Strømøy begins to unravel the clues and travels to India with Siri. But is it even possible to find a single person in a country with nearly 1.4 billion inhabitants? Tore Strømøy travels the world to help people find family and friends. Part 1 of 5. (Norway, 2018)

I am happy that the Open Society Foundations have achieved so much over the years in the field of early childhood development. But I think it is also worth remembering how we got involved in the first place—a story that shows how sometimes the best ideas come from keeping an open mind, so that you can find things you didn’t know you were looking for.

In 1993, due to the success of my business strategies, I was able to expand significantly my philanthropic work, which was largely directed at the time to supporting the transformation underway in the former Communist countries of East and Central Eastern Europe. My predominant concern was launching what was to become Central European University, with the idea that it would help develop the new generation of leaders that the region so needed after decades spent under the deadening weight of Communism.

I wanted the new university, with its focus on post-graduate studies in the social sciences, to have the best academic minds we could locate, and I devoted myself to talking to everyone I could find who had ideas to contribute— including Dr. Fraser Mustard, the great Canadian teaching doctor who was one of the founders of the Canadian Institute for Advanced Research. Dr. Mustard was famous as a cardiologist. But at the time

he was becoming increasingly focused on raising what were then new questions about the socioeconomic determinants of human development and health, starting with early childhood (work that was to help to lead the evolution of the concept of community care that has spread far beyond Canada). 

When I told him about my vision of the transformative impact of Central European University, he cited new research on the unprecedented development of the brain in the first few years, and then told me I had to start younger. Instead of focusing on university students, I should look at pregnancy and the critical first six years of childhood. 

Delhi Police rescue newborn and arrest three members of an inter-state human trafficking network; probe reveals racket stretched across Gujarat, Rajasthan, and NCR.

New Delhi | April 14, 2025:
In a shocking revelation, the Delhi Police have uncovered a child trafficking network that sold over 30 newborn babies to affluent families across the Delhi-NCR region. Operating across Gujarat, Rajasthan, and Delhi, the gang targeted infants from impoverished tribal families and sold them for ₹5–10 lakh each.

Modus Operandi and Criminal Background

The gang reportedly sourced babies from tribal communities in Pali, on the Gujarat-Rajasthan border. Saroj, the mastermind, assigned Yasmin the task of abducting infants. Once secured, Saroj coordinated the ‘deliveries’ with Anjali and collected the payments directly from wealthy families in Delhi-NCR.

Delhi Police rescue newborn and arrest three members of an inter-state human trafficking network; probe reveals racket stretched across Gujarat, Rajasthan, and NCR.

New Delhi | April 14, 2025:
In a shocking revelation, the Delhi Police have uncovered a child trafficking network that sold over 30 newborn babies to affluent families across the Delhi-NCR region. Operating across Gujarat, Rajasthan, and Delhi, the gang targeted infants from impoverished tribal families and sold them for ₹5–10 lakh each.

Modus Operandi and Criminal Background

The gang reportedly sourced babies from tribal communities in Pali, on the Gujarat-Rajasthan border. Saroj, the mastermind, assigned Yasmin the task of abducting infants. Once secured, Saroj coordinated the ‘deliveries’ with Anjali and collected the payments directly from wealthy families in Delhi-NCR.

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Simon and his husband are withdrawing from adopting another Danish child. This is based on the Supreme Court's decision in another adoption case.

It was the dream of creating a family that led Simon and his husband to apply to adopt a Danish child back in 2020. 

Barely two years later they had their son, who was one and a half years old at the time. 

- When it finally worked out, and we could find a way through how we could have a child together and be a family of the three of us, it was a feeling of happiness beyond compare, says Simon.

Simon is not the adoptive father's real name, but out of concern for the family's anonymity, TV2 ØST calls him Simon in this article. TV2 ØST knows the man's real name.