7,500 people have died while in Indian prisons since 2002, according to a new report.
From BBC News:
The report by Delhi-based Asian Centre for Human Rights says many of these people were tortured in custody.
It says the Indian government is in a state of denial about torture.
Even when action is taken against officials who are accused [...]

Bollywood films face a high level of piracy in the United Kingdom compared to Hollywood films.
From BBC News:
The Indian films, usually with a theme involving star-crossed lovers, have a global audience.
But the industry is being hit by piracy, and in the UK, the British Phonographic Industry (BPI) estimates 70% of DVDs found on sale in [...]

According to Reuters, “About 70 to 80 of Assam’s 5,000 wild elephants are smuggled out of the northeastern state every year, conservationists say, despite India’s ban on the trapping of wild elephants in 1986.”
Source: Biswajyoti Das, Reuters, “Elephant Smuggling rampant in India’s Assam,” Alertnet.org, June 15, 2007.

Source: “Desi pirates steal a billion from Bollywood,” Economic Times, May 4, 2008.

The movie industry in India is losing about $1 billion to pirated movies in the United States. 
From The Economic Times:

WASHINGTON: Pirates are robbing Bollywood of a billion dollars in revenue annually in the US, says veteran Indian filmmaker Bobby Bedi, lamenting that “the face of the Indian films pirate is Indian”. 

“The home video market in [...]

Source: “Women trafficking still on the rise,” eKantipur.com, November 15, 2007.

According to a fact sheet by UNICEF,  ”an estimated 12,000 Nepalese children, mainly girls, are trafficked for commercial sexual exploitation each year within Nepal or to brothels in India and other countries.”
Source: UNICEF, “Fact Sheets: Commercial Sexual Exploitation,” Child Protection Information Sheet, May 2006.

According to Reuters in 2007, “traffickers are selling children in India for amounts that are often lower than the cost of animals and most of them end up working as laboreres or commercial sex workers.”
The article stated that buffaloes may cost up to $350, while child who are trafficked are sold between $12 and $45.
Source: [...]

The Associated Press reported in July 2007 that “a U.S. State Department report released last month found that India has the world’s largest human trafficking problem.”
Source: Associated Press, “Study: Sex trafficking spreading HIV in South Asia,” International Herald Tribune, July 31, 2007.