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60,000 children in India go missing each year
India Gazette
Friday 2nd March, 2012
• Kidnapping is rife and growing alarmingly in India
• Children taken for ransom, prositution, slave labour and begging
• 20,000 of those who disappear each year are never found
An abducted six-year-old boy was murdered in the Thakurganj area of the old Lucknow city in India Friday after his father, a trader, did not pay a ransom demanded by the kidnappers.
The boy, named Shivam, went missing on Thursday evening.
Police had begun search operations Thursday night after the father Ramanand Tiwari received a ransom call for 300,000 Rupees (approximately $6,000 US dollars) on his cell phone. They immediately informed the Balaganj police who put the mobile phone on which the ransom call had come, under surveillance. The kidnappers repeated their demand at 2am.
The kidnappers however developed suspicions that their mobile phone was being tracked and switched it off.
Then, tragically on Friday night police were informed that the body of a child was lying in the Bari jungle near the Jangaleshwar temple. The family of the boy and senior officials rushed to the spot. The boy was identified by the family as their missing child.
SP (West) Rakesh Singh told IANS that the body had been sent for autopsy to establish the cause of death. He added that the phone tracking could lead them to the kidnappers. As news of the killing spread, the locality plunged into mourning.
Kidnapping for ransom is rife in India. Insurance companies now rank the country as the fifth highest in the world for kidnapping.
India's National Human Rights Commission estimates 60,000 children go missing nationwide every year. Less than 20,000 are ever recovered. Of those snatched in the capital Delhi, more than 3,000 each year are offered back to their parents for ransom. Others are forced into slavery and put to work in factories or assembly lines, or forced into prostitution, while the rest are made to become beggers, sometimes being maimed in the process to boost their earning power.
source: http://story.indiagazette.com/index...60000 children in India go missing each year/
India Gazette
Friday 2nd March, 2012
• Kidnapping is rife and growing alarmingly in India
• Children taken for ransom, prositution, slave labour and begging
• 20,000 of those who disappear each year are never found
An abducted six-year-old boy was murdered in the Thakurganj area of the old Lucknow city in India Friday after his father, a trader, did not pay a ransom demanded by the kidnappers.
The boy, named Shivam, went missing on Thursday evening.
Police had begun search operations Thursday night after the father Ramanand Tiwari received a ransom call for 300,000 Rupees (approximately $6,000 US dollars) on his cell phone. They immediately informed the Balaganj police who put the mobile phone on which the ransom call had come, under surveillance. The kidnappers repeated their demand at 2am.
The kidnappers however developed suspicions that their mobile phone was being tracked and switched it off.
Then, tragically on Friday night police were informed that the body of a child was lying in the Bari jungle near the Jangaleshwar temple. The family of the boy and senior officials rushed to the spot. The boy was identified by the family as their missing child.
SP (West) Rakesh Singh told IANS that the body had been sent for autopsy to establish the cause of death. He added that the phone tracking could lead them to the kidnappers. As news of the killing spread, the locality plunged into mourning.
Kidnapping for ransom is rife in India. Insurance companies now rank the country as the fifth highest in the world for kidnapping.
India's National Human Rights Commission estimates 60,000 children go missing nationwide every year. Less than 20,000 are ever recovered. Of those snatched in the capital Delhi, more than 3,000 each year are offered back to their parents for ransom. Others are forced into slavery and put to work in factories or assembly lines, or forced into prostitution, while the rest are made to become beggers, sometimes being maimed in the process to boost their earning power.
source: http://story.indiagazette.com/index...60000 children in India go missing each year/
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