Less than 1% trafficking victims receive compensation: NGO report

Some outfits in West Bengal take up cudgels to find out the lacunae through RTI pleas and creating awareness among survivors, writes Swarnami Mondal

Sultana (name changed), a human trafficking survivor from West Bengal, is one amo­ng only three in the state to get compensation from the State Legal Services Authority (SLSA) under the West Bengal Victim Co­mpensation Scheme between 2012 and 2019 — that too after a legal tussle of four years.

“In order to prove that I had been a victim of human trafficking, I had to go through multiple rounds of questioning by police. This was followed by a legal tussle and multiple rounds of hearing at the distri­ct court, which did not yield any re­sult. I filed the case in 2016