Sunday, 12 January 2014

AP still hub of sex trafficking, 778 traffickers arrested and 558 minors rescued

U Sudhakar Reddy
State is still hub of sex trafficking. According to Director General 
of Police Mr. B Prasada Rao in 2013 state police arrested 778 traffickers and rescued 558 
victims including minors. Human trafficking racket has links to Middle East countries and 
Mumbai and other places within the country police found.


DGP Mr Prasada Rao said,”We have booked 386 cases of trafficking of women and apart from 
traffickers we also arrested 363 customers.  At least 11 minors who are forced into sex 
racket were rescued. CID anti trafficking units are working on to curb the menace,”
Local sex racketeers turned hitech and were contacting their clients through  mobile 
applications, whatsapp and social networking sites like Facebook. In November 2013 in a 
sex racket busted at Punjagutta the girls are flown in to the city from Delhi, Pune and 
Mumbai on air. The organizer identified as Peter alias Chetan from Delhi used to gain 
confidence of customers and send the pictures of girls on facebook and through internet.
Last year witnessed several high profile sex racket cases. In one instance in October 
City police busted a high profile sex racket and arrested an industrialist SK Goenka the 
MD of Jay Raj Ispat Limited and resident of Banjara Hills and rescued an upcoming TV 
serial actress at Madhapur in October.
CID officials said apart from local gangs there are cross border networking trafficking 
women to the city from Bangladesh via Kolkata. From Kolkata they are taken to Biwandi in 
Mumbai, Pune and Hyderabad by train. Several Bangladeshi girls were rescued in the city.
Trafficking of young women from the state to Gulf countries including Dubai, Kuwait and 
Oman and forcing them into the sex trade hasn’t stopped according to anti trafficking 
police. The women were trapped in the racket after being promised jobs as maid servants 
and baby-sitters in Gulf countries.

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