3,000 tribal girls from Jharkhand last year may have ended up with traffickers.
By Dileep Thekkethil
Some NGOs and the Jharkhand police have alleged that minor girls from the tribal areas of Jharkhand state could have been lured by traffickers to bigger cities and forced into pornography as there is a global demand for dark complexed girls.
According to the police, more than 3,000 girls from the tribal areas in Jharkhand who went missing are believed to have ended up in the hands of traffickers. Both police and NGO activists shared the details of a few victims who managed to escape the ordeal.
The statement of the victims give a strong reason to believe that most tribal girls might have been used by cartels in the state to promote their business in selling new pornographic films to websites.
According to The Hindustan Time, “thousands of tribal girls, most of them minors, are trafficked from Jharkhand’s villages to bigger cities across the country every year to work as domestic help and sex slaves.”
Records of the Criminal Investigation Department of Jharkhand says the number of girls who went missing since 2015 is 3,838 out of which 1,281 girls are yet to be traced.
The National Crimes Record Bureau has in its list only 37 cases in 2014 but the NGOs working in the state has provided a startling figure of close to 10,000 minor girls trafficked from the state every year.
The Hindustan Times reported the case of a tribal girl who was trafficked from Khunti in 2013. The minor was gang-raped in New Delhi and the rapists recorded the video. In another case that happened in July 2015, three girls were kept in Ghaziabad as captives and shown pornography before they were put on sale as sex workers via WhatsApp.