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Thursday, August 20, 2015

Human trafficking high in Tamil Nadu

 
Tamil Nadu had the second highest incidence of crime relating to human trafficking during 2014, after West Bengal, data released by the National Crime Records Bureau (NCRB) shows.

 Tamil Nadu had 509 cases of human trafficking in 2014 with 590 victims and all of them were registered under various sections of the Immoral Traffic (Prevention) Act, 1956, the data shows.

According to NCRB, human trafficking consists of crimes such as importation of girls from foreign countries, procuring, buying and selling of minors for prostitution. 

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