প্রকাশ: 02/03/2022
The key accused in
an international human trafficking racket, who was arrested by India's
Anti-Terrorism Squad (ATS) from Tripura, was allegedly involved in trafficking
of over 200 women and children from Myanmar and Bangladesh to India on
assurance of marriage and providing employment, said senior police officials on
Tuesday.
The officials said the accused identified as Arshad Miya
Bappan, a resident of Seppahjala, Tripura, was arrested from his hideout on
Monday on the revelation of his close aide Mohd Rafiq.
Rafiq was arrested in Lucknow on Saturday (February 26). He
had come here to meet some of the members of the racket lodged in district jail
here since their arrest in July and August last year.
A senior ATS official said Bappan will be brought to Lucknow
in connection with the case registered with the Uttar Pradesh (UP) ATS, on
transit remand, and will be questioned further to extract more information
about his network and people involved in purchasing trafficked women and
children from Myanmar and Bangladesh.
He said Bappan and his accomplices are also suspected of
sending women and children to countries like Malaysia and pushing them into the
flesh trade.
An ATS official privy to the investigation said the
information extracted from the accused so far suggests that Bappan and his
crime partner, a Bangladeshi national Noor Mohammed, have trafficked over 200
women and children from Myanmar and Bangladesh and have sold them in different
states after preparing their fake Indian identities. He said Bappan and others
also used to harass these women and children sexually and mentally before
selling them to other gangs involved in human trafficking and flesh trade.
The official said Bappan's crime partner Noor Mohammed was
arrested along with two Myanmar nationals Rehmatullah and Shabi-ur-Rehman alias
Shabiullah from the Delhi-bound Brahmputra train in Ghaziabad on 27 July, 2021.
He said the police had also rescued two women, aged 16 and 18, from Myanmar, from them. Later on their revelation one more key accused Mohd Ismail, the resident of Mangdu, Myanmar, was arrested from Hyderabad in Telangana, he added.
- Hindustan Times
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