Sleuths of the Anti-Terror Squad (ATS) of Uttar Pradesh claimed to have arrested two more members of a human trafficking gang involved in facilitating forged Indian identity to citizens of Bangladesh and Myanmar and later sending them on job to other countries or even in India.
In an official communiqué released on Thursday, the ATS claimed that they were receiving intelligence inputs that a syndicate had been formed by some persons, who hid their identities and got illegal infiltrators settled in India on the basis of fake Indian documents and by giving them financial support, they promoted anti-national activities.
This intelligence was further developed both by physical and electronic surveillance and the first breakthrough was made on October 11 this year when the team members nabbed Adilur Rahman Asrafi, a resident of Dhaka, Bangladesh, Abu Huraira Ghazi, a resident of Kalutara, Rameswarpur, Hasnabad, District North 24 Parganas, West Bengal, and Sheikh Najibul Haq, a resident of 1, Purva Haldharpara, Guranbos Basanti, District 24 Parganas South, West Bengal.
The ATS registered a case 12/2023 under sections 120B, 419, 420, 467, 468, 471, 370 of the Indian Penal Code, Section 14 of Foreigners Act 1946 and sections 12(1) and 12(2) of Passport Act, 1967.
Following interrogation of the arrested accused, the ATS worked on the information and last Tuesday, arrested a Bangladeshi woman, Tania Mandal, native of Pirojpur, Bangladesh, and Ibrahim Khan, also a native of Bangladesh, soon after they crossed the India-Bangladesh international border to enter India. The arrest was made in Bengaluru.
The communiqué said that Adilur Rahman, with the help of the syndicate, had brought Tania Mandal into India. Thereafter Tania Mandal was sold to Ibrahim Khan for Rs 25,000. Presently Tania Mandal is working as a labourer in a textile factory in Bengaluru.
Ibrahim Khan was residing in Bengaluru by concealing his identity by making forged Indian documents and Indian passports.
Thus, a total of five accused have been arrested so far in the above registered case. Further legal action is being taken by bringing the above two arrested accused to Lucknow on transit remand from Bengaluru.
