Women and Children As Victims of Cross-Border Trafficking: Languishment for Access to Justice

Across the border trafficking is a common phenomenon. India and Bangladesh have frequent porous border, that‘s why traffickers use it very often. Women and Children from rural areas of Bangladesh are taken away by some agents who are usually known to the families. Evan sometimes knowing everything fully, in the name of marriage, the families sell the daughters because of some money. So undoubtedly poverty is one of the main reason for trafficking. That means because of their no fault only as they are the girls of the family, they become victim by their own family. A real life situation is described her. On 14 January 2013, M brought HN, his wife, two sons and a few other villagers-altogether 13 persons-from Bangladesh to India. M lured them with the promise that the adults would be given domestic work in Delhi and the children would be sent to the Middle East for appropriate work. M1 trafficked these 13 persons through the Indo-Bangladesh border at Chander Kuthi, Kuchlahat. They were on their way to Delhi. As they were moving to Silliguri, they were intercepted by Dhupguri police, who asked them to provide citizenship documents. As they were unable to provide any documents, and on realizing that they were from Bangladesh, the police arrested them on 24 January under S13/14 of the Foreigner’s Act. On being produced before the judicial court, the court ordered that HN’s two children, seven years old HQ and five year old AL were sent to Korak’a Home in Jalpaiguri. They are still languishing for repatriated to Bangladesh.