08 July,2011 07:41 AM IST | | Anurag Jadli
Police at the Capital's Indira Gandhi International (IGI) Airport have arrested two persons on charges of human trafficking. The incident came to light on May 8 when a person named Raj Kumar, a resident of Punjab was intending to go Poland and Italy (passport no. E-8012072) from Delhi airport.
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On checking his passport immigration officers found that the POE stamp affixed on page No.32 was seems to be doubtful. The passport was seized by the immigration officials and sent for verification.u00a0
"After verification, the passport was found to be forged and a case was registered in IGI Airport, New Delhi. On July 4, the accused Raj Kumar was arrested. During investigations Rajkumar disclosed that his journey/POE stamp was arranged by an agent named Rakesh Kumar, resident of Uttam Nagar area of west Delhi against the payment of Rs. 5.50 lakh, out of which Rs. 3.20 lakh was given to the agent and the rest of the amount was to be paid, when the person reached Poland and Italy," said an airport police official.
"On July 4 the agent Rakesh Kumar was arrested from Uttam Nagar and investigations followed. Rakesh Kumar disclosed that he had arranged a POE stamp through another agent Satish Kumar and his associate Anil Dhawan, both residents of Patel Nagar in Delhi.u00a0 On July 5 Satish Kumar was also arrested.u00a0
Both the accused were produced in Dwarka Court and sent to judicial custody. Three passports were recovered from Rakesh Kumar and further investigations are on," he added.
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India is a source, destination, and transit country for men, women, and children trafficked for the purposes of forced labouru00a0 and commercial sexual exploitation. Internal forced labour may constitute India's largest trafficking problem; men, women, and children are held in debt bondage and face forced labour working in brick kilns, rice mills, agriculture, and embroidery factories. While no comprehensive study of forced and bonded labour has been completed, NGOs estimate this problem affects 20 to 65 million Indians. Women and girls are trafficked within the country for the purposes of commercial sexual exploitation and forced marriage especially in those areas where the sex ratio is highly skewed in favour of men. Children are subjected to forced labour as factory workers, domestic servants, beggars, and agriculture workers, and have been used as armed combatants by some terrorist and insurgent groups.
