Photo Essay: Promised Jobs, Northeast Women Face Identity Theft And Trafficking

IMPHAL, INDIA - JANUARY 22: Lamzakap Simte, father of a girl who left home last April at Churachandpur on January 22, 2018 some 200 Km from Imphal, India. Lamzakap Simte said his daughter Esther who left home in April 2017 contacted him in January and expressed a desire to return. He mustered courage to register an FIR but the police said that since she had a new identity, repatriation was difficult. Chinneihlam Gangte, an officer, said that this kind of trafficking has been happening since 2012. We can only act if a case is registered. Parents are scared, Gangte said. (Photo by Vipin Kumar/ Hindustan Times via Getty Images)