Human Trafficking: Online love, dreams of marriage and everything shatters in the next moment, know how innocent girls are getting trapped in the trap of smugglers.

New Delhi: As much as social media is making people’s lives easier, its misuse has also increased considerably. Recently, NGO Shakti Vahini saved two teenage girls who were trapped in the web of love on social media. Shakti Vahini activist and member Rishi Kant told that he/she has rescued two such girls from smugglers who were trapped in the trap of smugglers through social media. Rishi Kant told that the first girl is from West Bengal, whose age is only 14. It’s a year. The girl told that chatting on social media has proved to be a nightmare for her. She told that she had unknowingly connected with a trafficker online about a year ago. Gradually, the smuggler wins her trust and convinces her to meet him/her in person, taking him/her to Delhi. The girl was stuck in Delhi for a long time after being trafficked.

Smugglers trapped in the web of love

Something similar happened with another girl from West Bengal who was 16 years old. She told that she too was lured by traffickers through social media and then got trapped. In both the cases, the traffickers first lured the girls into the trap of love and then promised them marriage. However, when those promises were not kept, the victims learned that they were just one of many other girls who were similarly ensnared by traffickers.

Human trafficking has been going on for many years

Shakti Vahini activist and member Rishi Kant said that social networking websites have become very popular. On these websites, men and traffickers contact young girls without any limit and lure them with various promises. Traffickers target young girls. In such a situation, Rishi Kant believes that schools should implement a curriculum on cyber-enabled human trafficking cases to educate young girls about the various methods of traffickers so that they can protect themselves.

Shakti Vahini activists claim that human trafficking has been going on for many years, but now social media is being used to perpetrate it. Let us tell you that generally many women and girls from Chhattisgarh, Bihar, Jharkhand, West Bengal and Assam are trafficked to the capital. Some are trafficked for menial jobs such as working in brick kilns or other construction activities. Many are forced into prostitution.