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38.3% rise in human trafficking cases, great demand for tribal & Muslim girls

NCRB
76% of human trafficking cases nationwide over the last decade have involved girls and women

The trafficking of minor girls - surged 14 times over the last decade & 65% in 2014
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CID report from Assam, over 5k children went missing b/w 2012-15

For tribal families in 36garh & Jharkhand, to occasionally find one of their daughters missing is a familiar

32 young women were rescued in Allahabad, all from villages in the forests of 36garh; 18 were minors
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there's a growing demand for dark-skinned girls; Haryana's Jats buy Muslim brides

An expert who did not wish to be named, confirmed that the most worrying trend India is seeing today is the rise in the number of Muslim girls being sold as brides to Haryana's Jat families.
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I can safely say that seven out of 10 girls who are trafficked out of Assam's and Bengal's villages are Muslim. They are forced to change their names, their identities, their religions and live like slaves," the activist said.

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West Bengal is the hub of human trafficking in India. It had the maximum human trafficking cases (669) amongst all the states in 2013, followed by Tamil Nadu, Andhra Pradesh, Karnataka and Maharashtra.
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