In the wake of Ranchi unit of Mother Teresa's Missionaries of Charity who are allegedly involved in child trafficking, here we have a list of major cases of child trafficking in India. The National Commission for Protection of Child Rights in the last report mentioned, in 2015, 92,172 children were trafficked.
The National Commission for Protection of Child Rights mentioned, in 2015, 92,172 children were trafficked. Colourful murals made by Delhi Street Art on the wall of Ambedkar Memorial in Delhi |Photo Credit: Representative Image New Delhi: In 2015 alone 92,172 children were trafficked as per the National Commission for Protection of Child Rights last report. Since 2009, there is 300 per cent spike in the number of child trafficking cases, which are reported. CRY a non-governmental organization followed a report published by the United States Department of State which revealed, “India is a source, destination and transit country for men, women, and children subjected to forced labour and sex trafficking. The majority of India’s trafficking problem is internal, and those from the most disadvantaged social strata- lowest caste Dalits, members of tribal communities, religious minorities, women and girls from excluded groups – are most vulnerable. Here’s is a list of the biggest child trafficking case in India. 2011- Pune The Central Bureau of investigation in 2011, filed a charge sheet against the managing chairman of the well-known Pune based orphanage, Preet Mandir and five others in connection with Child trafficking. As per the charge sheet from 2002 - 2010, the managing trustee got involved in a criminal conspiracy with unidentified people and they used to kidnap children from rural areas of Maharashtra with a motive to send them inter-country adoption processes. By this way, they exhorted huge sum of money for almost eight years. The major culprit, in this case, was identified as Joginder Singh Bhasin. 2016- Kolkata Another racket was busted in 2016, an adoption agency in Kolkata was found guilty of stealing babies from rape victims, marginalized families, and unwed mothers. They also had connections, where the mothers were told that they gave birth to stillborn babies, when they had delivered healthy babies. Eventually, the crime was entangled in political turf between the Bharatiya Janata Party and Mamata Banerjee. 2017 -Mumbai The first string of this racket was caught at Chhatrapati Shivaji International Airport, a 52-year-old man was arrested by the Immigration officials for trafficking minor boys and girls to various countries. This racket was spread in countries like United Kingdom, France, Switzerland, and Germany as per reports by national English daily Hindustan Times. The man from 2015, had trafficked around 17 minor girls and boys to various countries.