Women Trafficking, Hyderabad ranks fourth
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The National Crime Records Bureau, for the first time, has created a separate head to maintain a record of cases in the country for Human Trafficking. The data indicates that out of most women struck in trafficking in the country are forced into prostitution.
There were about 8,057 cases registered on human trafficking with the police. Out of which, Telangana State and Andhra Pradesh have registered 229 and 239 cases respectively.
Andhra took third place in sexual exploitation of the trafficked women in the country with 736 women being rescued while Telangana stood sixth with 314 women.
Tamil Nadu has topped the list with 1,087 women, followed by Maharashtra with 1.020 cases. According to reports the women are lured on the pretext of providing good jobs in the city and were later forced into prostitution. Unfortunately, our pearl city, stood fourth with a total of 64 cases being registered in 2016 and 76 women being rescued. Cities like Bengaluru and Chennai topped with 205 and 115 cases followed by Nagpur with 125 cases.
