According to the newest report by the National Crime Records Bureau (NCRB), the conviction price in human trafficking circumstances throughout the nation stays low. While police filed chargesheets in 84.7 per cent of the two,189 circumstances registered below anti-human trafficking items (AHTUs) throughout the nation in 2021, solely 16 per cent of the circumstances resulted in conviction.
While conviction figures weren’t accessible for 11 states, eight states and three union territories didn’t have any convictions. The high performer was Jharkhand, which pleaded responsible in 84.2 per cent of the 92 circumstances reported in 2021.
In 2020, police filed chargesheets in 85.2 p.c of the 1,714 trafficking circumstances registered, however convicted in solely 10.6 p.c of the overall circumstances. Seven states reported no convictions, whereas two reported conviction charges of lower than 2 p.c.
In 2019, a complete of two,260 human trafficking circumstances had been registered, of which police filed chargesheets in 83.7 per cent, whereas convictions had been made in 22 per cent. Four states didn’t report convictions in any respect.
The states and union territories that reported zero convictions in 2021 are: Arunachal Pradesh, Assam, Goa, Haryana, Himachal Pradesh, Karnataka, Odisha, Telangana, Delhi, Chandigarh and Jammu and Kashmir. Of these, the police filed the ultimate chargesheet in additional than 90 per cent of the circumstances in Himachal Pradesh, Karnataka, Telangana; and Goa and Haryana account for greater than 80 per cent of the circumstances.
Telangana (347 circumstances), Maharashtra (320 circumstances) and Assam (203 circumstances) reported the utmost variety of trafficking circumstances.
In the final three years, Maharashtra, Andhra Pradesh and Telangana have reported the very best variety of human trafficking circumstances, adopted by Assam, Jharkhand, Kerala, Odisha and Rajasthan. Barring Telangana, all states noticed a decline in circumstances in 2020, the primary 12 months of the pandemic that noticed a lockdown.
With inputs from TheIndianEXPRESS
