- 2021-08-16 07:43:23
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Rab arrest three members of a human trafficking gang
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Staff Correspondent:
Dhaka, Aug-16,
In a drive against human trafficking Rab have arrested three members of gang from Dhaka city, Satkhira and Madaripur districts after wide media coverage of the smuggling of a woman and her teenaged daughter to India.
The drive, conducted
from Sunday night to Monday morning, came amid reports of growing incidents of
trafficking people luring them with jobs abroad, a Rab officer said.
According to Rab the
gang members were involved in the trafficking of a 17-year-old girl in last
January promising her a job in an Indian parlour. Later the girl’s mother was
also trafficked.
They both have been
rescued and repatriated to Bangladesh.
The arrestees were identified
as Kallu Shohagh alias Kallu Nagin Shohag alias Kallu, 40, ringleader of
Kala-Nagin syndicate and son of Matiur Rahman of Madaripur district, Mohammad
Shohagh alias Shohagh alias Nagin Shohagh, 32, son of Kabir Hossain of Dhaka’s
Pallabi area and Billal Hossain, 41, son of Akimuddin Morol of Satkhira
district.
Tipped off, a team of
Rab-4 conducted the simultaneous drive and arrested them from Madaripur’s
Shibchar upazila, Satkhira’s Debhata upazila and Pallabi area of the capital,
said ASP Imran Khan of Rab Headquarters (media).
After interrogation,
Rab came to know that the syndicate members have long been involved in
trafficking women and young girls to India with a promise of lucrative jobs
there.
Some 20-25 members were
involved in the gang and Billal used to work as the agent of the gang along the
bordering Satkhira district, said Rab.
The syndicate members
are active in Mirpur, Tejgaon and Gazipur district.
In the wake of the
alleged fraud, cases have been filed by relatives of the victims in Bangladesh
at various times. Complaints have also been received from several families who
have gone missing at different times. Accordingly, RAB has intensified its
intelligence surveillance.
Rab launched an
investigation on trafficking of women to India and over the recent alleged rape
and torture of a Bangladeshi woman by fellow Bangladeshis there.
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