Delhi Police arrested a 42-year-old woman allegedly involved in human trafficking from Punjabi Bagh area on Sunday. She had a reward of Rs 25,000 on her. According to Police, Prabha Muni and her husband Rohit Muni allegedly ran an NGO that lured girls on the pretext of providing a job.
Acting on a tip-off, Prabha Muni was arrested on Saturday, while her husband was still absconding, police said.?
During the?investigation,?it was learnt that the accused used to lure girls to their NGO with false promises of getting them jobs as housemaids in Delhi, a senior police officer said. A case was registered against them in 2013 and the accused were absconding since then, he said, adding that police were trying to trace Rohit Muni.
Human trafficking is a major issue in India and even from Delhi, many girls and children are trafficked into other parts of the country and vice versa.
As per the NCRB data,? a total of? 8,132 cases of human trafficking recorded in 2016 in India, and among states, West Bengal topped the list with most cases followed by Rajasthan. West Bengal and Rajasthan, together account for 61 per cent of such cases in the country. A total of 3,576 cases were registered from West Bengal and 1,422 cases from Rajasthan. Out of the 75 cases registered in all UTs, 66 alone were registered in Delhi.?