India, Sept. 22 -- There is an adage - Little thieves are hanged but great ones escape. It holds true to today's era where the most dangerous criminals are never traced. Or even if they are, it's mostly too late.

A new study has found that only four out of 429 people named as 'traffickers' in police files related to over 100 cases of human trafficking, have been convicted in the past 10 years. This provides enough evidence to understand why human trafficking continues to grow unabated in the country.

The study, carried out by analysing case documents such as chargesheets, FIRs and police general diaries related to 198 human trafficking cases, found that out of 429 named offenders only less than one per cent were convicted with punishmen...