Woman held for human trafficking in New Delhi

A woman called Rukmini has been arrested at a railway station in New Delhi on suspicion of trafficking women into prostitution. The middle aged woman is from Latur, a city devastated in an earthquake in 1993, which has become a source city for women being trafficked into sexual exploitation. The woman was spotted at the railway by a former victim who had allegedly been sold into slavery by Rukmini eight years previously. Since being sold the victim had been rescued and was working with an NGO called Shakti Vahini despite suffering years of abuse and contracting HIV. Rukmini was caught allegedly trafficking another woman, who had a young daughter and son with her, into sexual exploitation and was overpowered by NGO workers and handed over to the police. To read more about this and related issues, please visit The Hindi by clicking here.