After curbs against drug addiction the Jammu & Kashmir Lieutenant Governor Manoj Sinha has voiced his deeper concerns over the increasing challenge of the growing menace of human trafficking and very rightly so as the incidents of human trafficking appearing day in and day out in newspapers and news channels besides going viral on social media sites head to no dead end in Jammu & Kashmir. Combating human trafficking is as big a challenge as is drug addictions for all the stakeholders the police, civil society groups and also religious preachers. The Government having already set up anti-human trafficking cells in 11 districts of ss Jammu & Kashmir though reserves the right to say that it has done whatever it had to do for combating growing menace of human trafficking but reviewing the working of the anti-human trafficking cells matters the most after establishing them for the purposes of reducing the spread of the menace of human trafficking. Since none else than the Lt Governor Manoj Sinha himself has raised huge concerns over the spread of the growing menace of human trafficking, the onus of reducing the intensity of it’s spread through already established anti- human trafficking cell lies more on police than on other stakeholders including civil society groups and religious preachers. Though Police could put in it’s best to curb the growing menace of human trafficking by carrying out ant-human trafficking drives both in Kashmir Valley and as well as Jammu division the way it is carrying out special drives against drug addicts across Jammu & Kashmir but it is also a fact that civil society groups and religious preachers if engaged and involved in public awareness programs against human trafficking would further the causes of reducing the spread of human trafficking across Jammu & Kashmir.
“Since the Chief Justice of J&K and Ladakh High Court has also come strongly against the growing menace of human trafficking by stressing for prevention and intervention of Judiciary in bringing perpetrators of human trafficking incidents to Justice, the intervention of judiciary amid a huge interest shown by the Lt Governor Manoj Sinha in fight against human trafficking would surely and certainly reduce the increasing spread of human trafficking in coming years in Jammu & Kashmir. With top brass of both the Judiciary and as well as the Government extending support to fight against human trafficking, the initiatives of Police and other stakeholders to prevent and combat the growing menace of human trafficking could be taken to logical conclusions”.
Since social media sites have become the strongest sources of communication in the current era of digitisation in Jammu & Kashmir like other parts of the country, the stakeholders including Police, Civil Society Groups and religious preachers could put in their best to spread anti-human trafficking messages through audio clips and vieo messages to reduce the intensity of the human trafficking in Jammu & Kashmir. Since the Chief Justice of J&K and Ladakh High Court has also come strongly against the growing menace of human trafficking by stressing for prevention and intervention of Judiciary in bringing perpetrators of human trafficking incidents to Justice, the intervention of judiciary amid a huge interest shown by the Lt Governor Manoj Sinha in fight against human trafficking would surely and certainly reduce the increasing spread of human trafficking in coming years in Jammu & Kashmir. With top brass of both the Judiciary and as well as the Government extending support to fight against human trafficking, the initiatives of Police and other stakeholders to prevent and combat the growing menace of human trafficking could be taken to logical conclusions.
