Agra : More and more girls, some still infants, are being groomed to become prostitutes in the Taj Mahal city of Agra. But the police are determined to end it all.
The innocent girls, brought here from other parts of northern India, are being allegedly injected hormones to induce puberty. Some are being registered in schools with names of strangers as their mothers.
Agra Police freed about 20 girls, aged between 2 and 15, following half a dozen raids this month at the Basai red light zone, barely a stones throw from the majestic Taj, one of the worlds leading tourist attractions.
Only recently three girls were rescued from the house of a middleman engaged in women trafficking. Police say they were to be sold to contacts in Mumbai.
In another raid, three girls, including a two-year-old, were freed. Five women and nine men were held on charges of trapping them in the flesh trade.
The police also rescued several girls from areas such as Mal ka Bazar, Kashmiri Bazar, Seo ka Bazar, Sir ki Mandi and Sikandra.
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The duo, identified as Padamvir Singh and Sarfaroz Khan,
History of Agra
Agra has a rich historical background that is long dated back in Indian history its been India’s capital for long time before it was shifted to Delhi for good, which is vastly evident from the numerous historical monuments in and around the city of Agra. The earliest reference
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Railway officials are in talks with a hotel chain to run a Luxury on Wheels train linking tourist sites in north-western India. PK Goel, a senior railway official, said yesterday that a proposal by the Oberoi hotel group was under consideration.
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Besides the software technology parks already functioning with the help of Union government in Noida, Kanpur, Lucknow and Allahabad, Agra and Varanasi would also have such parks, a release quoting the Managing Director of UP
In a recent interview to the Indian media, General Pervez Musharraf says all the right things, in the right vein, with sincerity but ensures that the skeletons of the 2001 Agra Summit tumble out.
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I personally suspect it was Advani sahib. That is my guess because he was quite hawkish in those days,
VIOLENCE CONTINUED in trouble-torn areas of Aligarh, with the toll going up to seven.
The State Government suspended district magistrate Rajesh Kumar Singh and senior superintendent of police Ajay Anand.
Efforts to restore peace suffered a setback on Saturday when a boy belonging to a