External Affairs Minister S Jaishankar on Thursday told the Rajya Sabha that Punjab has the maximum number of human trafficking cases in the country.

''As far as states are concerned, the maximum number of trafficking cases is from the state of Punjab,'' the minister said while replying to supplementaries during the question hour.

Jaishankar said the Punjab government has constituted an SIT and a fact-finding committee to look into cases of human trafficking.

''As per information given by them to us, 25 FIRs have been registered against 58 illegal travel agents, and 16 accused have been arrested,'' he said on Punjab.

''In the case of state of Haryana, 2,325 cases have been registered and 44 FIRs have been registered and 27 people have been arrested. Also, one significant trafficker has

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