There are over 700 districts and over 16,000 police stations in the country and an overwhelming majority of them, including senior police officials, still see the issue through the prism of commercial sex work

Amod Kanth

missing children and tackle sex trafficking, an overwhelming majority of trafficking cases incorporating the new additions in the law are not looked into. Traffickers have been able to use the lacunae in the police's approach towards human trafficking to go scot free as, according to Prayas, several hundred cases are stuck in the lower courts in the evidence stage.

Millennium Post had reported on Friday as how the new trafficking destination country has changed and now the State of Rajasthan has become the new hub due to its mushrooming embroidery units and bangle making factories.

Akhil, manager with Geneva Global, an organisation working in the field of human trafficking, has been working in Rajasthan for the past few months. According to his data, around 288 cases have been stuck in the evidence stage in the lower courts in the state.

Further according to data provided by Deepshika Singh, Senior manager at the Institute of Juvenile Justice, around 940 cases have been registered under the section 370, however the rest of the cases the ITPA is invoked.

Deepshika has identified over 20 trafficking hotspots starting from the State of Bihar to Delhi.

Several training sessions have also been conducted with the Sashastra Seema Bal (SSB), Indo Tibetan Border Police (ITBP) and other enforcement agencies.

The traffickers looking at this trend have adapted and now use the border areas around Delhi to bypass the Capital and reach Rajasthan.

“The traffickers now use the border areas like Anand Vihar, Faridabad district, Gurugram to bypass the security at the Capital,” she said. NEW DELHI: M S Dhoni and his Jharkhand cricket team had to evacuate the Welcom hotel on Friday owing to a fire which broke out in a shopping mall located near their hotel.

After receiving green signal from the hotel staff, the cricketers returned to the hotel when the former Captain found three of his mobile phones to be missing. Following this, an FIR was lodged on March 17.

Later, all the three phones were traced after one fire fighter from Delhi Fire Services (DFS), returned them after the cops contacted him. Senior officials from DFS claimed that the fire fighter took the phones for safe keeping and was planning on returning it.

So far, the cops have remained tight-lipped about the case. They also stated that the fire fighter made an error of judgment and did not know about the owner of the phones.

After Dhoni returned to their hotel, his assistant, Vikas Hasija and Sandeep Phogat, the travel manager, had inspected room 937 in which Dhoni was put up. Both of them found that the room was swept clean and all of Dhoni's belongings were in place except three of his mobile phones which were missing.

“My iphone 6 plus, Reliance LYF and a brand new Lava phone was missing. My assistant had also informed Akash Hans, a hotel staff. Akash had also looked into the CCTV footage of the hotel and found nothing,' said the former captain in his complaint.

The police registered an FIR under section 380 IPC at Dwarka South police station. “We had approached the hotel staff and questioned some of them. Later, we started to look into the CCTV footages. Then we found that the fire fighter had inadvertently taken the phone and retuned the phones claiming that he did not know about the owner. It was an error of judgement on his part,” said Deputy Commissioner of Police, Surender Kumar.

However, the Delhi Police spokesperson, Depender Pathak said, “The police has not given a clean chit to the fire fighter and will be verifying his claims before taking any action.”