Human trafficking a serious organised crime: CBI chief

Human trafficking a serious organised crime: CBI chief
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NEW DELHI: Describing human trafficking as one of the most serious organised crimes, alongwith narcotics trade and illicit arms trade, CBI chief Ashwani Kumar said on Monday that India occupies a unique position in this illicit trade because it works as the source, transit and destination for the crime.

"It is, therefore, both a supplier and a consumer of this trade and this differentiates human trafficking in India from other countries. Eighty-five per cent of the people trafficked in India are trafficked for domestic market itself,'' said Kumar, while addressing a seminar on human trafficking.

"The approach of the government in tackling the social scourge is essentially two fold: first, to frame policy and to enact legislations, and, second, to involve NGOs and social groups in rescue and rehabilitation of victims,'' he added.

According to Kumar, what is worse is that even religious places have been affected by sex tourism and prostitution. "The most serious part is that some of the religious places in India and tourist destinations are getting affected by sex tourism and prostitution which is a very serious thing,'' Kumar later told reporters on the sidelines of the seminar.

"The alarming trend is that in the last few years, sex tourism, especially child sex tourism, pedophilia and prostitution have emerged as the areas of crime,'' he added.

Kumar said the shutting down of dance bars had gone a long way towards shutting an important avenue of consumption of trafficked children and women. "Many of the intellectuals have questioned whether it (shutting down of dance bars) is justified. We in CBI think it is,'' he said.

Union home secretary Madhukar Gupta, who inaugurated the seminar, said human trafficking is one of the gravest problems facing the country and it has to be dealt with extreme seriousness.

"The root cause of the problem is poverty, under development, unemployment among others. Therefore, we have to address the problem both socially and by enforcing law,'' he said.

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