Fake placement agencies facilitate girls' trafficking

New Delhi: The trafficking of girls from Jharkhand on the pretext of offering them jobs is easier through placement agencies. The process for a licence to run a placement agency in the national capital starts with an application to the district Deputy Commissioner of Police. "After getting the application, we send police personnel to check the condition of the placement agency and some factors like the environment in which they are keeping the person who has come for jobs," said a senior police officer. The application is then moved to licensing department of Delhi Police for further clearance.

The Delhi Police personnel regularly visit the placement agencies to check if there is anything illegal going on there. The senior police officers in the Central district held a meeting with the ACPs last year and told them to check if any illegal agencies are running in their jurisdiction.

Member of Child Welfare Committee (CWC) from Jharkhand Manoj Rai told the Millennium Post that most of the traffickers are known to the victim girl. "The trafficker can be a villager or a relative who had a tie-up with the fake placement agency running in the metropolitan cities. He takes the girl there on the promise of a better life," said Rai. He further added that the family members of the girl allow her to go with the trafficker thinking that she will send money from there. The modus operandi of fake placement agency is easy. For the first two months, they send money to the parents of the girl and after that, they stop sending money to them. "The contact of the girl with her family is also stopped so that no one can trace the girl. After six months to a year, the family members file complaints that the girl has been kidnapped," said another CWC officer.

Rishikant from NGO Shaktivahini claimed when a girl is brought to Delhi, the placement agency owner produces a fake registration number and the girl is easily trapped in

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