Task Force police raided two star hotels at Banjara Hills on Saturday night and arrested two persons, including a Mumbai-based casting director. An inter-state high- profile sex racket involving some actors and models, was busted by the Goa police on Thursday. At the time of going to press, deputy commissioner of police crime branch Vinay Rathod confirmed to TOI they were in the process of lodging an FIR at Malad police station. The girls also claimed to have offered their services to high-profile people of the city and many among them include politicians and business tycoons. Sun, Nov 17, Updated
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In some northern Indian villages, girls are never born
Suzanne Hill does not work for, consult, own shares in or receive funding from any company or organisation that would benefit from this article, and has disclosed no relevant affiliations beyond their academic appointment. After a series of high-profile rape cases, India launched a national register of sex offenders for the first time in September. Those convicted of sex crimes — including rape and sexual harassment — will now be added to a database, access to which will be given to law enforcement agencies, but not the public. The aim of the new register is to reduce the number of crimes committed against women in India.
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Authorities in a northern India state launched an investigation this week to uncover why no girls were born in villages in three months. Over the past three months, not a single girl was born in villages in the northern Indian state of Uttrakhand, according to local authorities. An investigation was launched over the weekend after official data revealed that of the children born in villages in the Uttarkashi district, not one was female, according to Asian News International ANI. Successive Indian governments have attempted to address the problem, passing legislation and launching headline-grabbing national awareness campaigns. A act banning prenatal sex determination tests forbids health providers -- including laboratories and clinics -- from disclosing the sex of the fetus to a pregnant women and her relatives.
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