The ED has seized assets worth about Rs 1.90 lakh while acting on a large immoral trafficking racket running in Hyderabad. This action has been taken under the PMLA. Bangladeshi citizens were operating this gang.
The Telangana police had registered two FIRs in this case, which were later taken up by the NIA. The police raided two places in the outskirts of Hyderabad, where the business of body trade and human trafficking was going on in an organized manner. Many Bangladeshi citizens were arrested in this raid.
Investigation revealed that most of the arrested accused are Bangladeshi citizens who entered India without legitimate documents. He had made fake Indian identity cards and despite being arrested in other cases, he continued to do his wrongdoing.
These accused used to seduce girls from Bangladesh and bring them to India. They were lured by good jobs like beauty parlor, tailoring, steel factory or domestic jobs but after bringing India to India forcibly pushed into body trade. These girls were illegally brought to India from the border areas of West Bengal.
‘The accused were running the Vashalayas’
The ED investigation revealed that the accused were running a Vaishyalaya at Hyderabad and around it. Apart from this, girls were also sent to other agents and cells, which gave them commission. The accused had created many bank accounts and digital wallets using fake Indian identity cards, which were used in the transaction of this illegal business money.
‘Used to pay up to 5 thousand rupees in lieu of girl’
For the smuggling of Bangladeshi girls, they used to pay 4,000 to 5,000 rupees per girl to the agents active on the Indo-Bangladesh border. This amount was distributed among many people. Payments for this smuggling were made through banking channels and in cash. The accused used money transfer service and financial apps to avoid tracking of money. They used to divide the transaction into small parts so that no one was suspicious.
The ED investigation also revealed that a large part of the money earned from this crime was sent to the agents present in the border areas of West Bengal. He used to withdraw this amount in cash and send the families of the accused and the families of the victim girls to Bangladesh through hawala. For this, BKash (Bangladesh Bank’s mobile financial service) was also used several times.
The ED has seized the properties of Ruhul Amin Dhali, a prominent accused in this case. He was one of the biggest agents of Bangladeshi girls’ smuggling. The seized properties include paytm wallet and amount deposited in bank accounts as well as a immovable property.
ED is further investigating the matter and other people associated with this racket are also being traced.
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