2 alleged human trafficker arrested, 3 victims rescued

Two persons have been arrested for allegedly running a an inter-state human trafficking syndicate and rescued three victims, including a minor, police said today.
The Special Staff of South District was tasked to assist a team of Assam Police for rescuing an Assamese woman who had been abducted in the first week of May, said Deputy Commissioner of Police (South) Ishwar Singh.
Two accused -- Altaf (28) and Ram Kesh (30) were identified as the front operators of the syndicate, he added.
They were nabbed and they disclosed that they had abducted the Assamese woman from New Delhi Railway Station.

They had then sold her to other members of this syndicate -- Payal and Sunil Jha, who had been operating from Munirka, said the officer.
The accused also said that in the last few months, they had abducted several women from railway stations here for selling them off to Haryana-based traffickers for prostitution and forced marriages.

Along with a team from NGO Shakti Vahini, a police team went to Rohtak, Haryana.
Two victims were rescued from there. One was the resident of Kolkata, and the minor a resident of Bhagalpur in Bihar.
It was found that the abducted Assamese woman had been taken from Delhi to Bikaner and then to Jodhpur in Rajasthan.

However, it was learnt that the abductors panicked after learning about the arrest of their co-accused, and they made her board a train to Assam where she was reunited with her family.