Service 06 of 12 — Anti-Trafficking, Police Cell & POSH

If someone has taken her, we do not wait.

  • Report a missing woman or girl — to us and to the police at the same time. You do not need to wait twenty-four hours, and anyone who tells you otherwise is wrong. A missing person complaint must be registered immediately.

  • Report a suspected trafficking situation — a job offer that felt wrong, a recruiter asking for money and papers, a girl who has stopped coming out of a house, a placement agency that will not say where she was sent. You may report anonymously.

  • Our police cell — a trained Forum officer who accompanies you to the station, helps you make the complaint, and follows it up so that it does not go quiet.

  • Harassment at work — every workplace with ten or more people is required by law to have an Internal Committee and to act on your complaint within ninety days. If yours does not have one, or will not act, we will take it to the Local Committee for you.

  • Rescue, and afterwards — we work with the Anti-Human Trafficking Units, the police and shelter partners. What happens after the rescue matters as much as the rescue, and it is the part that is usually forgotten.

Two things we're honest about

We are not a police force. We cannot register an FIR, conduct a rescue on our own authority, or compel any employer. We accompany, document, escalate and follow up — which is precisely what is usually missing. Please still call 112 for anything urgent.
Anonymous reporting has a limit. An anonymous report can be passed to the police, but it cannot always be acted on, and we cannot report back to someone we cannot contact.