WHAT HAS HAPPENED?
Six people, including two women, were arrested from Bengaluru’s Ramamurthy Nagaron on Thursday, After a video circulating online purportedly showed the men raping and torturing the woman, who is believed to be in her early 20s. Two other women, also named as accused, were purportedly seen in the video.
A police officer, who spoke on condition of anonymity, said the 3.5 minute-video appeared to be at least 10 days old. “They used bottles to assault her (the woman), and they were shooting the entire ordeal,” the officer said.
ASSAM POLICE
The incident was flagged by Assam Police first on Thursday morning, and later redirected to the Bengaluru police after they received information about a possible suspect in the city. “So we formed our teams to follow these leads and were able to detain one of them and based on the information provided we arrested the rest of the accused,
Another police officer said on the condition of anonymity that the Bangladesh Police helped identify one of the suspects -- Ridoy Babu, of Tejgaon in Dhaka -- based on his TikTok account and the video circulating online. The rape survivor was traced to Kerala after the alleged incident and brought back to the city by the police on Friday. Her condition is stable and she is undergoing tests in Bengaluru.
Bengaluru police said the two accused, aged 25 and 23, were shot in their legs by the security team in self-defence, When the four men were taken to a house for recreation of the crime scene on Friday morning. The two who were injured -- Ridoy Babu and Sagar -- are admitted to a government-run hospital in Bengaluru and their condition is stable, police said.
The other two arrested men were identified as
Mohammed Baba Sheikh and Hakeel.
Police did not identify the two women arrested in the case as they are suspected to be victims of human trafficking as well.
HUMAN TRAFFICKING
Human Trafficking is the recruitment, transportation, transfer, harbouring or receipt of people through force, fraud or deception, with the aim of exploiting them for profit. Men, women and children of all ages and from all backgrounds can become victims of this crime, which occurs in every region of the world. The traffickers often use violence or fraudulent employment agencies and fake promises of education and job opportunities to trick and coerce their victims.
INDIA-BANGLADESH
Human trafficking is increasing in an alarming rate now-a-days in Bangladesh as well as in South Asia. According to a report, 200,000 Bangladeshi women and children are being taken out of the country in last 10 years.At least 20,000 Bangladeshi women and children are trafficked to India and Pakistan and to Middle Eastern states every year.
The traffickers push the poor and vulnerable
from across the border by luring them with job
opportunities in cities like Kolkata, Guwahati,
some other towns in north-east India and
as far as Delhi and Mumbai.
USE OF SOCIAL MEDIA
Traffickers are using social media to convince people and to proliferate their trafficking operations.Traffickers are spreading many rumors and fraudulent advertisements online. Ultimately this situation creates an immense pressure on the state for protecting its citizens from becoming victims of trafficking.
While addressing the increased number of human trafficking, The Prevention and Suppression of Human Trafficking Act (PSHT), 2012 has come into effect, For restraining and suppressing human trafficking at the earliest possible time and ensuring protection of victims of the offence relating to human trafficking
CONCLUSION
Human trafficking is an offence against the humanity and such offences are now under surveillance of many Acts which aim to prevent such offences. In South Asia, rate of offence related to human trafficking is increasing day by day rapidly. States do take steps but in most of the cases, states fail to provide safety to all citizens.It is highly essential to ensure proper implementation of the laws concerning the offences of human trafficking.
Q. Which of the following statements are correct regarding Human Trafficking?
1. Article 23 of the Indian Constitution prohibits trafficking in human beings.
2.There is no separate legislature related to Trafficking.
A) 1 only
B) 2 only
C) Both 1 & 2
D) None of the above
Comments
Post a Comment