Bangalore: Sex change racket - Financer arrested
Bangalore November 10, 2008: Bangalore City police have today arrested a financier for his alleged involvement in a major sex change racket in the city.
The police, who had busted the racket yesterday with the arrest of two eunuchs for kidnapping a boy and coercing him into prostitution after his sex was changed, had succeeded in arresting kingpin Rajanna from the city and they were on the look out for a doctor, who operated the boy in Andhra Pradesh, the sources said.
They said the ninth standard student had been identified as Chandrashekhar of T Dasarhalli in the city. He was taken to Kadapa in Andhra Pradesh for the sex change in March, when his parents had filed a missing complaint with the police.The racket involves in kidnapping, castrating and eventually forcing them into begging and prostitution.
The boy revealed that he had gone to Kadapa and underwent a couple of surgeries and got his sex changed before being named as Shilpa. The only son of labour Venkatappa was then forced into the business of prostitution and begging. The money he collected from the day was given to Rajanna, who had financed his surgery in Kadapa. Rajanna had also made the arrangement of Rs 50,000 for the breast transplant in a city hospital.
The boy has been admitted to Victoira hospital for rejuvenating his genitals. The Chief Minister's office has come forward to bear the medical expenses for the operation, they added. According to a report, there were about 25,000 transgenders in the city
Monday, November 10, 2008
Sunday, November 09, 2008
Transsexuals' arrest points at racket
Transsexuals' arrest points at racket
8 Nov 2008, 2353 hrs IST, TNN
Bangalore : With the arrest of two transsexuals, the police have stumbled upon a racket where boys are kidnapped and pushed into prostitution after a sex change operation. The arrested are Basavaraj alias Mangala and Baby alias Madhu. Police are on the lookout for five more persons, including a doctor from Andhra Pradesh who allegedly conducted the surgeries, and Rajanna, who finances such operations. DCP (north-east) Basavaraj Malagatthi said the racket has existed for a while and the police are verifying how many more children might have been kidnapped and pushed into sex work. Raj (name changed), a class IX student from Dasarahalli, was missing since March 23 and his father had lodged a complaint. The police found a sex worker named Shilpa, and on interrogation realized she was in fact the missing boy. During the investigation, police picked up Mangala and Baby, who had kidnapped Raj. He was allegedly drugged and taken to Kadapa, Andhra Pradesh, where he was operated upon at Naganna Hospital and kept for a month. `Shilpa' was then brought to Bangalore and pushed into sex work by Rajanna, who runs a brothel. He is also said to have financed the operation and transportation. During the same period, Mangala got a breast transplantation at the hospital at a cost of Rs 60,000, police said. "This is the work of an organized racket. Besides Mangala and Baby, three other transsexuals -- Nandini, Sowmya and Apurva -- are involved. We are sure many other children have been kidnapped, and are trying to find out the details,'' Malgatthi said.
8 Nov 2008, 2353 hrs IST, TNN
Bangalore : With the arrest of two transsexuals, the police have stumbled upon a racket where boys are kidnapped and pushed into prostitution after a sex change operation. The arrested are Basavaraj alias Mangala and Baby alias Madhu. Police are on the lookout for five more persons, including a doctor from Andhra Pradesh who allegedly conducted the surgeries, and Rajanna, who finances such operations. DCP (north-east) Basavaraj Malagatthi said the racket has existed for a while and the police are verifying how many more children might have been kidnapped and pushed into sex work. Raj (name changed), a class IX student from Dasarahalli, was missing since March 23 and his father had lodged a complaint. The police found a sex worker named Shilpa, and on interrogation realized she was in fact the missing boy. During the investigation, police picked up Mangala and Baby, who had kidnapped Raj. He was allegedly drugged and taken to Kadapa, Andhra Pradesh, where he was operated upon at Naganna Hospital and kept for a month. `Shilpa' was then brought to Bangalore and pushed into sex work by Rajanna, who runs a brothel. He is also said to have financed the operation and transportation. During the same period, Mangala got a breast transplantation at the hospital at a cost of Rs 60,000, police said. "This is the work of an organized racket. Besides Mangala and Baby, three other transsexuals -- Nandini, Sowmya and Apurva -- are involved. We are sure many other children have been kidnapped, and are trying to find out the details,'' Malgatthi said.
Nine girls en route to Indian brothels rescued
Nine girls en route to Indian brothels rescued
Anti girl trafficking volunteers rescued nine Nepalese girls last week from a frontier Indian town of Raxaul which is adjacent to Birgunj in Parsa district and handed them over to Maiti Nepal, reports said.
The girls, most of whom were minors, were rescued while being taken to Indian capital New Delhi by volunteers with the Cross-Border Anti-Trafficking Network, an NGO based in Raxaul, and then handed them over to the Birgunj branch of Maiti Nepal.
The report quoted Maiti Nepal Birgunj branch head Sangeeta Puri as saying that Phoolmaya Magar, 50, was taking the girls, who were from Mahottari and Sarlahi districts, to India to sell them into brothels where they would be forced to work as commercial sex workers.
Puri said that the girls have already been handed over to their parents. But it was not known through the report whether Magar was arrested.
Hundreds of Nepalese girls from the impoverished hilly districts of the country are trafficked to Indian metropolis mostly through Raxaul every year despite concerted efforts by Maiti Nepal and other anti-trafficking networks to put a lid on this appalling human tragedy.
After ending up in brothels in big Indian cities like New Delhi and Mumbai, the girls have to often go through intense suffering in the form of physical and mental tortures including depravation in uninhabitable places where they long to see the sun for years. It is estimated that more than 100,000 Nepalese girls and women currently work in brothels across India. nepalnews.com ag Nov 09 08
Anti girl trafficking volunteers rescued nine Nepalese girls last week from a frontier Indian town of Raxaul which is adjacent to Birgunj in Parsa district and handed them over to Maiti Nepal, reports said.
The girls, most of whom were minors, were rescued while being taken to Indian capital New Delhi by volunteers with the Cross-Border Anti-Trafficking Network, an NGO based in Raxaul, and then handed them over to the Birgunj branch of Maiti Nepal.
The report quoted Maiti Nepal Birgunj branch head Sangeeta Puri as saying that Phoolmaya Magar, 50, was taking the girls, who were from Mahottari and Sarlahi districts, to India to sell them into brothels where they would be forced to work as commercial sex workers.
Puri said that the girls have already been handed over to their parents. But it was not known through the report whether Magar was arrested.
Hundreds of Nepalese girls from the impoverished hilly districts of the country are trafficked to Indian metropolis mostly through Raxaul every year despite concerted efforts by Maiti Nepal and other anti-trafficking networks to put a lid on this appalling human tragedy.
After ending up in brothels in big Indian cities like New Delhi and Mumbai, the girls have to often go through intense suffering in the form of physical and mental tortures including depravation in uninhabitable places where they long to see the sun for years. It is estimated that more than 100,000 Nepalese girls and women currently work in brothels across India. nepalnews.com ag Nov 09 08
Thursday, November 06, 2008
Cops rescue woman forced into prostitution
Thu, Nov 6 02:16
2Days after the Additional Commissioner of Police, Dr K Venkatesan, and the DB Marg police took an initiative to assist sex workers wishing to leave the profession, one Bengali woman being forced into prostitution was rescued and reunited with her husband by the officers of DB Marg police station on Tuesday.The victim (25) was being held against her will by Kumar Yadav (32) and Ashok Yadav (28) at the second floor of Krishna building in Grant road.The police raided the flat after being approached by the aunt of the victim's husband, and arrested the two men. The victim was found hiding under a bed, as she had been told by her captors that she would be arrested if caught.The accused are in police custody till Friday and have been charged with rape, illegal detention of a woman and also selling a woman for prostitution.
The woman was also allegedly beaten up by the duo, and had marks on her body. The victim was reunited with her husband who worked as a construction worker in the city and had been trying to locate her for the last two months. The victim had been brought to the city by a relative under the all too common ruse of procuring a job.Her relative sent her to two of his friends, who he claimed would hire her as a maid but they later sold her to the Yadavs. In the same flat, the police also found four more sex workers, who were sent to the Womens Remand Home in Chembur from where the police will help them get back to their home towns. The police are yet to arrest the victim's relative and the other two men as they are believed to be out of the city.
source :
http://in.news.yahoo.com/48/20081106/804/tnl-cops-rescue-woman-forced-into-prosti.html
Thu, Nov 6 02:16
2Days after the Additional Commissioner of Police, Dr K Venkatesan, and the DB Marg police took an initiative to assist sex workers wishing to leave the profession, one Bengali woman being forced into prostitution was rescued and reunited with her husband by the officers of DB Marg police station on Tuesday.The victim (25) was being held against her will by Kumar Yadav (32) and Ashok Yadav (28) at the second floor of Krishna building in Grant road.The police raided the flat after being approached by the aunt of the victim's husband, and arrested the two men. The victim was found hiding under a bed, as she had been told by her captors that she would be arrested if caught.The accused are in police custody till Friday and have been charged with rape, illegal detention of a woman and also selling a woman for prostitution.
The woman was also allegedly beaten up by the duo, and had marks on her body. The victim was reunited with her husband who worked as a construction worker in the city and had been trying to locate her for the last two months. The victim had been brought to the city by a relative under the all too common ruse of procuring a job.Her relative sent her to two of his friends, who he claimed would hire her as a maid but they later sold her to the Yadavs. In the same flat, the police also found four more sex workers, who were sent to the Womens Remand Home in Chembur from where the police will help them get back to their home towns. The police are yet to arrest the victim's relative and the other two men as they are believed to be out of the city.
source :
http://in.news.yahoo.com/48/20081106/804/tnl-cops-rescue-woman-forced-into-prosti.html
Wednesday, November 05, 2008
Microsoft India announces two new grants to CAP Foundation
Microsoft India announces two new grants to CAP Foundation
Microsoft to fund Rs. 1.61 Crore for IT skills projects in Anti-trafficking and Overseas Workers training
Gurgaon, Haryana, IND, 2008-11-05 10:38:21 (IndiaPRwire.com)
Under the Unlimited Potential vision, Microsoft Corporation India Private Limited today announced an additional funding of Rs. 1.61 crore to CAP Foundation through its Community Technology Skills Program (CTSP) to promote IT access and training to communities vulnerable to unsafe migration and human trafficking. This announcement was made at a valedictory function for graduates of CAP Foundation training courses, attended by senior representatives from Microsoft, CAP Foundation and USAID/India. Addressing one of the root causes of unemployment in India, CAP Foundation provides employability skills training and economic empowerment to individuals and youth in at-risk communities.
Speaking at the event, Nancy Anderson, Corporate Vice President and Deputy General Counsel, Microsoft Corporation, USA said, “Access to information and communication technology holds tremendous potential to be the change agent for creating a more equitable order of economic opportunities and sustainable development. Every life that Project Jyoti - our Community Technology Skills Program in India - has helped transform through IT skills training is a testament to this. I am glad to deepen the engagement with our partner CAP Foundation for continuing to reach out to underserved individuals and changing lives”.
In his comments, Mr. George Deikun, Mission Director, USAID/India, said, “USAID is privileged to be a part of this very exciting initiative which links learning with livelihood. It is revolutionizing the way vulnerable youth, who have little prospect of employment, are mainstreamed into society”.
Expressing her views, Ms. Nalini Gangadharan, Chairperson, CAP Foundation, said, “Under the Microsoft and USAID-supported program, disadvantaged youth acquire basic IT skills, technical domain skills in fast expanding sectors, as well as life skills. It is a concrete step in positively changing the course of an individual’s life”.
Microsoft has so far partnered with 13 NGOs for on-the-ground CTSP program implementation in India, supported close to 900 Community Technology Learning Centres (CTLCs) across the country, and trained more than 120,000 people in approximately 20 states and Union Territories in IT skills based on the Unlimited Potential curriculum.
Under the grants announced by Microsoft, for phase II of an ongoing anti-human trafficking project, CAP Foundation will get Rs 1.18 crores in cash, software and curriculum across 30 training centres focusing on high migration and trafficking pockets in 15 states and union territories. A total of 44,800 at-risk youth from economically disadvantaged communities especially vulnerable to trafficking will receive IT and other skills training over three years. Most significantly, 80% of them are expected to be placed in jobs. This continues the momentum of phase I (2006-2008) of the project which was supported by USAID and QUEST Alliance for digitization of life skills content for improved delivery of the training.
A second project for IT skills training of Overseas Workers to assist their safe migration will get Rs 42.53 lakhs in cash, software and curriculum donations from Microsoft for 3 training centres in Hyderabad, Chennai and Ranchi. Around 6000 workers who have made the decision to migrate overseas for employment and are registered with Overseas Migration Corporations or similar agencies in India will receive pre-migration related employability skills training, certification and placement assistance. In addition to enabling professional advancement and safer, more informed migration, technology training will also help overseas workers transition more easily to life overseas and remain in closer contact with their families back home via use of ICT.
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About CAP Foundation (www.capfoundation.in)
The mission of CAP Foundation is to link learning and livelihood for youth at risk by providing a holistic education and livelihood promotion module which combines formal education with employability skill development training, life skills, job placement and career exploration opportunities, using experience to develop confident individuals capable of self directed growth.
About Microsoft India (www.microsoft.com/india)
Founded in 1975, Microsoft (NASDAQ "MSFT") is the worldwide leader in software for personal and business computing. The company offers a wide range of products and services designed to empower people through great software - any time, any place and on any device. Microsoft Corporation India Private Ltd is a subsidiary of Microsoft Corporation USA. It has had a presence in India since 1990 and currently has offices in 16 cities - Ahmedabad, Bangalore, Chandigarh, Chennai, Coimbatore, Hyderabad, Indore, Jaipur, Jamshedpur, Kochi, Kolkata, Lucknow, Mumbai, Nagpur, New Delhi, and Pune.
About USAID India (http://www.usaid.gov/in)
The U.S. Agency for International Development (USAID) is the principal U.S. agency that provides economic, development and humanitarian assistance to countries around the world. Despite India’s booming economic growth, large segments of the youth population lack the education and skills necessary for success in the modern economy. To address this gap, USAID/India supports the Workforce Development Initiative (Ek Mouka or one opportunity) implemented by the CAP Foundation, which mobilizes poor and marginally educated youth and provides them with training in the skills demanded by industry
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Congratulations to Aasara project partner ' CAP foundation'
Microsoft to fund Rs. 1.61 Crore for IT skills projects in Anti-trafficking and Overseas Workers training
Gurgaon, Haryana, IND, 2008-11-05 10:38:21 (IndiaPRwire.com)
Under the Unlimited Potential vision, Microsoft Corporation India Private Limited today announced an additional funding of Rs. 1.61 crore to CAP Foundation through its Community Technology Skills Program (CTSP) to promote IT access and training to communities vulnerable to unsafe migration and human trafficking. This announcement was made at a valedictory function for graduates of CAP Foundation training courses, attended by senior representatives from Microsoft, CAP Foundation and USAID/India. Addressing one of the root causes of unemployment in India, CAP Foundation provides employability skills training and economic empowerment to individuals and youth in at-risk communities.
Speaking at the event, Nancy Anderson, Corporate Vice President and Deputy General Counsel, Microsoft Corporation, USA said, “Access to information and communication technology holds tremendous potential to be the change agent for creating a more equitable order of economic opportunities and sustainable development. Every life that Project Jyoti - our Community Technology Skills Program in India - has helped transform through IT skills training is a testament to this. I am glad to deepen the engagement with our partner CAP Foundation for continuing to reach out to underserved individuals and changing lives”.
In his comments, Mr. George Deikun, Mission Director, USAID/India, said, “USAID is privileged to be a part of this very exciting initiative which links learning with livelihood. It is revolutionizing the way vulnerable youth, who have little prospect of employment, are mainstreamed into society”.
Expressing her views, Ms. Nalini Gangadharan, Chairperson, CAP Foundation, said, “Under the Microsoft and USAID-supported program, disadvantaged youth acquire basic IT skills, technical domain skills in fast expanding sectors, as well as life skills. It is a concrete step in positively changing the course of an individual’s life”.
Microsoft has so far partnered with 13 NGOs for on-the-ground CTSP program implementation in India, supported close to 900 Community Technology Learning Centres (CTLCs) across the country, and trained more than 120,000 people in approximately 20 states and Union Territories in IT skills based on the Unlimited Potential curriculum.
Under the grants announced by Microsoft, for phase II of an ongoing anti-human trafficking project, CAP Foundation will get Rs 1.18 crores in cash, software and curriculum across 30 training centres focusing on high migration and trafficking pockets in 15 states and union territories. A total of 44,800 at-risk youth from economically disadvantaged communities especially vulnerable to trafficking will receive IT and other skills training over three years. Most significantly, 80% of them are expected to be placed in jobs. This continues the momentum of phase I (2006-2008) of the project which was supported by USAID and QUEST Alliance for digitization of life skills content for improved delivery of the training.
A second project for IT skills training of Overseas Workers to assist their safe migration will get Rs 42.53 lakhs in cash, software and curriculum donations from Microsoft for 3 training centres in Hyderabad, Chennai and Ranchi. Around 6000 workers who have made the decision to migrate overseas for employment and are registered with Overseas Migration Corporations or similar agencies in India will receive pre-migration related employability skills training, certification and placement assistance. In addition to enabling professional advancement and safer, more informed migration, technology training will also help overseas workers transition more easily to life overseas and remain in closer contact with their families back home via use of ICT.
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About CAP Foundation (www.capfoundation.in)
The mission of CAP Foundation is to link learning and livelihood for youth at risk by providing a holistic education and livelihood promotion module which combines formal education with employability skill development training, life skills, job placement and career exploration opportunities, using experience to develop confident individuals capable of self directed growth.
About Microsoft India (www.microsoft.com/india)
Founded in 1975, Microsoft (NASDAQ "MSFT") is the worldwide leader in software for personal and business computing. The company offers a wide range of products and services designed to empower people through great software - any time, any place and on any device. Microsoft Corporation India Private Ltd is a subsidiary of Microsoft Corporation USA. It has had a presence in India since 1990 and currently has offices in 16 cities - Ahmedabad, Bangalore, Chandigarh, Chennai, Coimbatore, Hyderabad, Indore, Jaipur, Jamshedpur, Kochi, Kolkata, Lucknow, Mumbai, Nagpur, New Delhi, and Pune.
About USAID India (http://www.usaid.gov/in)
The U.S. Agency for International Development (USAID) is the principal U.S. agency that provides economic, development and humanitarian assistance to countries around the world. Despite India’s booming economic growth, large segments of the youth population lack the education and skills necessary for success in the modern economy. To address this gap, USAID/India supports the Workforce Development Initiative (Ek Mouka or one opportunity) implemented by the CAP Foundation, which mobilizes poor and marginally educated youth and provides them with training in the skills demanded by industry
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Congratulations to Aasara project partner ' CAP foundation'
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