India: Three Children Trafficked to Europe

“Three children from the shelter home in UP’s Deoria, where inmates were allegedly abused and trafficked, were adopted and sent to Spain and France in February this year. A special investigation team (SIT) of the UP police made these disclosure in the chargesheet submitted to the Allahabad HC last week.

Police have invoked additional sections under the juvenile justice act as well as charges of forgery, criminal conspiracy and human trafficking against the accused.The accused, who have been arrested, include Girijia Tripathi, owner of the Maa Vindhyavasini Mahila and Balika Sanrakshan Vindhyavasini Mahila and Balika Sanrakshan Tripathi, her son-in-law Sanjiv, her daughter Kanchanlata, a quack named Yogendra Kumar Dubey, a nurse Hayat Afroz,and a shelter employee Pradip.”

“The shelter’s licence had been suspended in June 2017 but it continued to function illegally.”

3 kids given for adoption abroad on fake papers

[Times Of India 11/21/18 by Rohan Dua]

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