Police rescue 31 while being trafficked to India
Detective Branch police yesterday rescued 31 people, including 10 women and 11 children, from a passenger shed in New Court area in the district town while they were being taken to Benapole, Jessore.
According to police, human traffickers were planning to take them to India through Benapole border.
Two alleged members of the human trafficking gang -- Abdul Hakim Khan, 52, son of Ismail Khan of Badanibhanga village, and Oli Gazi, 25, of Surubazkathi village, in Morelganj upazila -- were also arrested.
All the victims, mostly aged between 2 and 25, hailed from Morelganj, Sharankhola upazilas of the district and Zianagar upazila of Pirojpur district.
Police said, acting on secret information that a gang of human traffickers brought a number people to the area to traffic them to the neighbouring country through Benapole border, a team of the Detective Branch of police raided the spot and rescued the victims.
Besides rescue of 31 people team they also arrested two traffickers. Other gang members, however, managed to flee the scene, police said.
A rescued teenage girl told this correspondent that she was brought from Badanibhanga village. She gave Tk 4,000 to the two arrestees for a job in India. She however, had no passport.
Barek Howladar said, he was willingly going to India to look for a job in Bengalore where some of his friends had been staying for long.
The arrestees told police that they take Bangladeshis to different cities in India in exchange for money.
We only make arrangements so that they can meet their family members or friends in those places," said Abdul Hakim.
Two cases were filed with Bagerhat model police station on charge of human trafficking, said District DB police in-charge Md Abdul Khaleque yesterday.
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