{"id":6130,"date":"2019-10-22T09:01:41","date_gmt":"2019-10-22T09:01:41","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.fighttrafficking.org\/?post_type=news_atc&p=6130"},"modified":"2020-01-31T09:05:49","modified_gmt":"2020-01-31T09:05:49","slug":"indian-trafficking-cases-fall-sharply-fuelling-concern-over-undetected-victims","status":"publish","type":"news_atc","link":"https:\/\/www.fighttrafficking.org\/demo\/news_atc\/indian-trafficking-cases-fall-sharply-fuelling-concern-over-undetected-victims\/","title":{"rendered":"Indian trafficking cases fall sharply fuelling concern over “undetected victims”"},"content":{"rendered":"\t\t
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Date: October 22, 2019<\/p>\n

Location: Mumbai, India<\/span><\/p>\n

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MUMBAI: Cases of human trafficking in India have fallen sharply, according to government data released on Monday, but campaigners warned the figures may not reflect the full magnitude of the crime.<\/p>\n

South Asia, with India at its center, is one of the fastest-growing regions for human trafficking in the world.<\/p>\n

Thousands of people – largely poor, rural women and children – are lured to cities each year by traffickers who promise good jobs, but sell them into modern day slavery.<\/p>\n

Figures released by India’s National Crime Records Bureau late on Monday showed around 3,000 human trafficking cases were reported in 2017, a drop of around 60% from just over 8,000 recorded in 2016.<\/p>\n

The data on trafficking, usually released annually, is seen as crucial to efforts by charities and organisations to stop the practise.<\/p>\n

Campaigners said a drop in trafficking cases was to be expected partly due to increased vigilance spurred by government-backed awareness campaigns.<\/p>\n

Campaigner Digvijay Kumar said, though, that traffickers had changed their tactics to circumvent authorities.<\/p>\n

“Traffickers have changed their mode of operating, discarding known routes and finding new ones. In many cases, the police are not registering cases under trafficking laws,” said Kumar of anti-trafficking NGO Institute for Development Education and Action.<\/p>\n

India’s Home Affairs spokesman declined to comment on the data.<\/p>\n

“The success of our awareness programme against trafficking was astounding,” said an official who declined to be named from West Bengal, a common destination for Indian trafficking victims.<\/p>\n

Human trafficking in West Bengal plummeted to around 350 cases in 2017 from over 3,500 in 2016, according to the data, released on Monday after a delay of over a year.<\/p>\n

The figures are broadly consistent with the findings of anti-slavery group Walk Free Foundation that reduced its estimate of enslaved people in India from 18 million in 2016 to eight million in 2017.<\/p>\n

Campaigners said that estimates of the scale of human trafficking in India should incorporate data on missing children as kidnapped persons.<\/p>\n

Saji Philip of anti-trafficking charity International Justice Mission said many cases could be going undetected because traffickers increasingly operate online.<\/p>\n

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