As many as 25 minor girls were rescued by the Railway police from Muzaffarpur-Bandra Awadh Express near Gorakhpur on Thursday after a passenger used Twitter to alert them. A passenger, with the twitter handle Adarsh Shrivastava, was on board when he noticed suspicious activity in his coach. The passenger tweeted that[Read More…]
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Daler Mehndi convicted in human trafficking case
Chandigarh: A court in Patiala on Friday convicted Punjabi pop singer Daler Mehndi in a 15-year-old human trafficking case. He was sentenced to two years in jail. The police had registered a case against Daler and others after it was alleged that the accused took money from people to the[Read More…]
US places China in worst human trafficking offenders list
The US State Department placed China on its global list of the worst offenders in human trafficking on Tuesday. The country also forced labor, a move that could intensify tensions with Beijing that had lessened under President Donald Trump. However, Trump has grown increasingly upset over China’s indecisiveness on North[Read More…]