Date:29/05/2010
Andhra Pradesh - Eluru
Towards empowerment of women and children
Staff Reporter
SPEWC, a district-level statutory body, launched
Integrated Child Protection Scheme also launched
Collector highlights need to focus on trafficking
ELURU: The Society for Protection and Empowerment of Women and Children (SPEWC) was launched here on Friday as a district-level statutory body to address issues concerning women and children and to strive for their empowerment. It would function as an arm of the State-level body – Andhra Pradesh Society for Protection and Empowerment of Women.
Objective
An Integrated Child Protection Scheme (ICPS), another forum to focus on the plight of children, was also launched on the same platform.
K. Raghava Rao, Project Director, Women and Child Welfare Department, who is member-convener of the district-level body, said the society would strive to promote gender equity, provide vulnerable women and children access to quality services and opportunities for building an equitable society through convergence and partnership.
Domestic violence
Collector A. Vani Prasad would act as Chairperson and Superintendent of Police C. Ravi Varma as vice-chairperson of the society.Speaking at a function in this connection, the Collector said the emergence of the SPEWC and the ICPS had become necessitated in the wake of increasing incidence of domestic violence.Some 10,000 cases of dowry harassment are reported in the State every year. The incidence of infanticide and foeticide is on the higher side. The female dropout rate is on the rise and the number of cases of women and girls subjected to trafficking is growing. The Collector highlighted the need for society to focus on trafficking in women and children and usurious activities of micro finance activities, subjecting SHG women to exploitation and harassment in the district.
M.M. Bhagawath, DIG of Police, Eluru range, called for an integrated approach with all stakeholders to handle the complex problems of trafficking and child abuse, and said it could be possible only through bodies like the SPEWC.
Citing an instance wherein Narsapur Revenue Divisional Officer S. Venkatamaiah had closed down a brothel in Bhimavaram for six months by exercising his powers under the Immoral Trafficking Act, the DIG called upon the revenue officers to act in a similar manner in their capacity as executive magistrates and cooperate with the police in combating the proliferating incidence of women trafficking in the district. SP C. Ravi Varma also spoke
Sunday, May 30, 2010
Friday, May 28, 2010
Singapore based sex trade busted
Singapore based sex trade busted
May 25 2010
Hyderabad, May 24: The state police have busted human trafficking and sex racket gang that would operate from Tamil Nadu and Singapore and arrested six persons.
A case against three Singapore-based racketeers has been registered and the police have decided to seek a red corner notice from Interpol.
The gang members who were arrested from Chennai, Hyderabad, Khammam and West and East Godavari were sending girls to Singapore on two-month tourist visas where they would be forced into prostitution.
The cops also rescued a 15-year-old girl of Tanuku in West Godavari district in an operation and registered a case against one of the gang members.
The accused has confessed that they have sent five girls to Singapore on the pretext of providing them with jobs. They were sent as relatives of the three accused gang members in Singapore.
During investigations, the Kovvur police identified 12 persons, P. Aruna Kumari (19) of Khammam, R. Santhi Kumari of East Godavari, A. Jagadish (31) of Vijayawada, Govinda Swamy Murugandanadam (28) of Chettiyar and Satyaveni, the wife of Murugan of Tamil Nadu, G. Krishna of Hyderabad and B. Purushottam Kumar of East Godavari, Rambabu of West Godavari and K. Satyanarayana of Rajahmundry.
A case has been booked against Maran, Kumar and Kannan of Singapore.
The Eluru Range DIG, Mr Mahesh Muralidhar Bhagawat, said, “Aruna Kumari used to send girls to Chennai with the help of the other accused. They promised the girls decent jobs in Singapore as maids.”
One of the accused, R. Santha Kumari, had gone to Singapore in 2008 on a tourist visa and returned to India and started sending women and girls to Chennai. Purushottam and Rambabu used to help organising passports and tourist visas for the girls. The Police caught the accused while they were trying to shift one of the victims to Singapore in a decoy operation. They said red corner notices & extradition proposals will be sent to ministry of external affairs and Embassy of India in Singapore.
Published on Deccan Chronicle
A team of West Godavari District Police led by DSP Kovvur Janaki Sharmila and others with the all support from Jebaraj of NGO Just Trust Chennai has been succesful in nabbing the Pondichery based Murugan who is on of the main trafficker. SP West Godavari Ravi Verma & DIG Eluru range has supervised this operation
May 25 2010
Hyderabad, May 24: The state police have busted human trafficking and sex racket gang that would operate from Tamil Nadu and Singapore and arrested six persons.
A case against three Singapore-based racketeers has been registered and the police have decided to seek a red corner notice from Interpol.
The gang members who were arrested from Chennai, Hyderabad, Khammam and West and East Godavari were sending girls to Singapore on two-month tourist visas where they would be forced into prostitution.
The cops also rescued a 15-year-old girl of Tanuku in West Godavari district in an operation and registered a case against one of the gang members.
The accused has confessed that they have sent five girls to Singapore on the pretext of providing them with jobs. They were sent as relatives of the three accused gang members in Singapore.
During investigations, the Kovvur police identified 12 persons, P. Aruna Kumari (19) of Khammam, R. Santhi Kumari of East Godavari, A. Jagadish (31) of Vijayawada, Govinda Swamy Murugandanadam (28) of Chettiyar and Satyaveni, the wife of Murugan of Tamil Nadu, G. Krishna of Hyderabad and B. Purushottam Kumar of East Godavari, Rambabu of West Godavari and K. Satyanarayana of Rajahmundry.
A case has been booked against Maran, Kumar and Kannan of Singapore.
The Eluru Range DIG, Mr Mahesh Muralidhar Bhagawat, said, “Aruna Kumari used to send girls to Chennai with the help of the other accused. They promised the girls decent jobs in Singapore as maids.”
One of the accused, R. Santha Kumari, had gone to Singapore in 2008 on a tourist visa and returned to India and started sending women and girls to Chennai. Purushottam and Rambabu used to help organising passports and tourist visas for the girls. The Police caught the accused while they were trying to shift one of the victims to Singapore in a decoy operation. They said red corner notices & extradition proposals will be sent to ministry of external affairs and Embassy of India in Singapore.
Published on Deccan Chronicle
A team of West Godavari District Police led by DSP Kovvur Janaki Sharmila and others with the all support from Jebaraj of NGO Just Trust Chennai has been succesful in nabbing the Pondichery based Murugan who is on of the main trafficker. SP West Godavari Ravi Verma & DIG Eluru range has supervised this operation
Wednesday, May 12, 2010
Pune-Andhra police raid Pune brothels, rescue 60 women
Andhra police raid Pune brothels, rescue 60 women
Reporter
Wednesday, May 12, 2010 AT 12:00 AM (IST)
Tags: Pune, human trafficking, prostitution, CID, raid
PUNE: The anti-human trafficking cell of the Criminal Investigation Department (CID) of Andhra Pradesh conducted a raid on brothels in Budhwar Peth and rescued more than 60 girls including 20 minors on Monday. Police have arrested seven women on charges of forcing the rescued girls into prostitution.
The seven accused have been identified as Santhabai alias Sunitha Naik (55), Geetha alias Saraswathi alias Latha Venkataraman (40), Rekha Mentu Das (35), all hailing from Anantapur district of AP, Sheela Thapa (50), Laxmi Myla (35), Rita Naik (45) and Bharathi Rahul (37) all from Karnataka. Judicial Magistrate (First Class) B.B. Pantavne remanded the accused in transit custody of the AP police, to be produced before the CWC, Anantapur on or before May 14.
Deputy Superintendent of Police Shivaji T, of Andhra Pradesh CID said that a case was registered at the Kadiri town police station in 2008. Seven traffickers were arrested then and two girls rescued. During investigations, the rescued girls informed the police about more such victims being confined in brothels at Budhwar Peth in Pune. Accordingly, a search warrant was issued dated May 6 and with help of Faraskhana police, a raid was conducted on Monday in Sagar building, said DySP Shivaji.
High drama took place in the court when the rescued minor girls claimed to be major and residents of different states, in front of the court. DySP Shivaji T. had requested the court to grant their transit custody, but the defence counsel argued that these rescued and minor girls cannot be sent in transit remand with the police.
The court ordered the rescued girls to be sent in rescue homes at Nana Peth and Mundhva.
POSTPONED
The anti-human trafficking cell of the CID, Andhra Pradesh has conducted couple of successful raids in past few years. According to sources, the Monday raid, actually planned months before, had to be postponed after information was leaked at the local police station level.
Reporter
Wednesday, May 12, 2010 AT 12:00 AM (IST)
Tags: Pune, human trafficking, prostitution, CID, raid
PUNE: The anti-human trafficking cell of the Criminal Investigation Department (CID) of Andhra Pradesh conducted a raid on brothels in Budhwar Peth and rescued more than 60 girls including 20 minors on Monday. Police have arrested seven women on charges of forcing the rescued girls into prostitution.
The seven accused have been identified as Santhabai alias Sunitha Naik (55), Geetha alias Saraswathi alias Latha Venkataraman (40), Rekha Mentu Das (35), all hailing from Anantapur district of AP, Sheela Thapa (50), Laxmi Myla (35), Rita Naik (45) and Bharathi Rahul (37) all from Karnataka. Judicial Magistrate (First Class) B.B. Pantavne remanded the accused in transit custody of the AP police, to be produced before the CWC, Anantapur on or before May 14.
Deputy Superintendent of Police Shivaji T, of Andhra Pradesh CID said that a case was registered at the Kadiri town police station in 2008. Seven traffickers were arrested then and two girls rescued. During investigations, the rescued girls informed the police about more such victims being confined in brothels at Budhwar Peth in Pune. Accordingly, a search warrant was issued dated May 6 and with help of Faraskhana police, a raid was conducted on Monday in Sagar building, said DySP Shivaji.
High drama took place in the court when the rescued minor girls claimed to be major and residents of different states, in front of the court. DySP Shivaji T. had requested the court to grant their transit custody, but the defence counsel argued that these rescued and minor girls cannot be sent in transit remand with the police.
The court ordered the rescued girls to be sent in rescue homes at Nana Peth and Mundhva.
POSTPONED
The anti-human trafficking cell of the CID, Andhra Pradesh has conducted couple of successful raids in past few years. According to sources, the Monday raid, actually planned months before, had to be postponed after information was leaked at the local police station level.
Monday, May 10, 2010
Child traffickers held, kingpin still at large
New Delhi, May 10, 2010
Child traffickers held, kingpin still at large
A human trafficking network active throughout north India since last year was neutralised by the Delhi Police after four people – including a woman, were arrested from West Delhi on Sunday.
According to police, the gang would kidnap girls in the age group of five to eight years from Delhi and sell them in Rajasthan.
“These buyers would rear the children till they attained sexual maturity, before pushing them into prostitution and other illegal activities,” said Sharad Aggarwal DCP (west).
Police identified the accused as Bina, Mangal, Ashok and Shyam Lal – hailing from Alwar district of Rajasthan but are yet to apprehend Radha (name changed), the gang’s leader.
“Radha used to work as an assistant with contractors supplying food to various primary schools in the capital,” said a senior police officer.
Police said Radha would come in contact with families of the gang’s prospective victims and then use her acquaintance with them to get access to their children.
“She would then kidnap them and traffic them to Rajasthan,” said the officer.
Police said the gang’s modus operandi and its links to Radha were discovered while interrogating the four accused persons following raids at Alwar’s Sodavas and Girvas villages.
“During interrogation, Bina disclosed that she had purchased a five-year-old girl from Radha through Shyam Lal for Rs 45,000,” the officer said.
Another girl, around eight years, was recovered from Mangal who confessed purchasing her from the same woman for Rs 40,000, police said.
“In addition to these two, another girl child has been rescued. However, she is so young that she is yet to make any intelligible reference to her home address or to the identity of her parents,” said Aggarwal.
“We have sent the children to Nirmal Chhaya and registered a case,” Aggarwal added.
Child traffickers held, kingpin still at large
A human trafficking network active throughout north India since last year was neutralised by the Delhi Police after four people – including a woman, were arrested from West Delhi on Sunday.
According to police, the gang would kidnap girls in the age group of five to eight years from Delhi and sell them in Rajasthan.
“These buyers would rear the children till they attained sexual maturity, before pushing them into prostitution and other illegal activities,” said Sharad Aggarwal DCP (west).
Police identified the accused as Bina, Mangal, Ashok and Shyam Lal – hailing from Alwar district of Rajasthan but are yet to apprehend Radha (name changed), the gang’s leader.
“Radha used to work as an assistant with contractors supplying food to various primary schools in the capital,” said a senior police officer.
Police said Radha would come in contact with families of the gang’s prospective victims and then use her acquaintance with them to get access to their children.
“She would then kidnap them and traffic them to Rajasthan,” said the officer.
Police said the gang’s modus operandi and its links to Radha were discovered while interrogating the four accused persons following raids at Alwar’s Sodavas and Girvas villages.
“During interrogation, Bina disclosed that she had purchased a five-year-old girl from Radha through Shyam Lal for Rs 45,000,” the officer said.
Another girl, around eight years, was recovered from Mangal who confessed purchasing her from the same woman for Rs 40,000, police said.
“In addition to these two, another girl child has been rescued. However, she is so young that she is yet to make any intelligible reference to her home address or to the identity of her parents,” said Aggarwal.
“We have sent the children to Nirmal Chhaya and registered a case,” Aggarwal added.
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