Human traffickers becoming tech savvy

Prashant achrya, EOI, Siliguri, 25 September 2014: Beware girls you may be the next victim! With the advancement of the new era the traffickers too are becoming tech savvy and using social media to lure the girls for job and money, especially school and college students are becoming victims. 

A Siliguri based NGO has started the awareness drive among the girls students in various schools and colleges to stop human trafficking. A Rajbanshi community anti Human Trafficking Society has come forward to stop the heinous crime and aware the students. Secretary of the Association Kautsav Dutta said local boys and girls, children and teenagers are becoming victims of human trafficking. 

The traffickers are using the social media for their business. He said that 85% of school and college students use android cell phones for using applications like Whatsapp, Facebook and other social media and in several occasions fall prey of the people who prepare fake identities to attract these students. 

Dutta said, “We are not against the using of cellphones and such applications but to make students aware of such tech savvy traffickers who are involved in spoiling the society and nation.” 

Rangu Sauriaya, secretary of Kanchanjunga Uddhar Kendra said that every year more than thousand girls are being sold to brothels of India and abroad only from North Bengal. She said that the girls sold to the gulf countries are 3% from Nepal, 11 % from Bangladesh and rest from India. The girls sold to Indian brothels are 60% from Nepal, 40% from West Bengal and Bangladesh and 10% from Karnataka and Andhra Pradesh.