A video seize of Exterior Affairs Minister S. Jaishankar talking in Rajya Sabha. Picture Credit score: Sansad TV through ANI
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Exterior Affairs Minister S. Jaishankar on Thursday (December 4, 2025) informed the Rajya Sabha that Punjab has the utmost variety of human trafficking circumstances within the nation.
“So far as States are involved, the utmost variety of trafficking circumstances is from the State of Punjab,” the Minister mentioned whereas replying to supplementary questions in the course of the query hour.
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Mr. Jaishankar mentioned the Punjab Authorities has constituted an SIT and a fact-finding committee to look into circumstances of human trafficking.
“As per info given by them to us, 25 FIRs have been registered towards 58 unlawful journey brokers, and 16 accused have been arrested,” he mentioned on Punjab.
“Within the case of State of Haryana, 2,325 circumstances have been registered and 44 FIRs have been registered and 27 individuals have been arrested. Additionally, one vital trafficker has been arrested by the State of Gujarat,” he mentioned.
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To a query on deportations by the US, the Minister mentioned the Nationwide Investigation Company (NIA) has established some years in the past an anti-human trafficking division, and it has as we speak a mandate to cowl human trafficking.
“State Governments have additionally launched investigations into human trafficking circumstances,” he famous.
“The NIA has registered and investigated 27 human trafficking circumstances, leading to 169 arrests and cost sheets towards 132 people. The NIA arrested two essential traffickers in Haryana and Punjab on August 7 after which in Himachal Pradesh, two extra individuals on October 2,” the Minister knowledgeable.
Printed – December 04, 2025 04:41 pm IST
