Guwahati: In a series of investigations carried out in Assam and Bihar, police uncovered an Interstate Muslim human trafficking gang that was involved in the trafficking of young girls from Assam. On July 10, Jogighopa police in the Bongaigaon district apprehended three traffickers: Arbaaz Khan, his father Papu Khan, and his mother Bashiran Nesa while trying to traffic a minor girl pretending to marry her.
Under the guise of marrying a 14-year-old girl, they attempted to flee the state but were caught. The cops apprehended the Uttar Pradesh youth and his parents. The family traffics in young girls for human trafficking. They pose as married to young girls and then sell them to brothels, according to a police source. A Case number 114/24 has been filed by the police in accordance with Section 87/143 of the Bhartiya Nyay Samhita (BNS). The issue is still being looked into. On the other hand two girls, one of whom was a juvenile, were successfully freed from traffickers in Bihar earlier on June 8 by the Guwahati Police.
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With the assistance of Bihar Police, a Guwahati police team from the Bhangagarh Police station freed two kidnapped young girls from a brothel in Rawta, Bihar. Following an investigation, a network of human traffickers was brought to an end when Tanveer Alom from Bihar, Idrish Ali from Basistha, Sikandar Ali from the Paltan Bazar railway station, and Khairun Nesa from Basistha in Guwahati—who is from Panjipara in West Bengal—were apprehended. Idris Ali and Khairun Nessa sold the girls for Rs 1,10,000 to a man in Panjibara, Bihar, who then gave them to Tanvir Alom. Vulnerable teenage girls and women were targeted by gangs, who then lured them into being kidnapped and sold to brothels.
Rekha Devi filed a report at the Bhangagarh Police Station in Guwahati on June 29, 2024, claiming that her daughter Sindhu Kumari, 18, and another girl, Saniyara Parbin, had gone missing. After receiving a report of a missing person, the Bhangagarh Police launched a thorough inquiry. Unknown person demanded Rs 3,00,000 from Sindhu Kumari’s family in order to have her released. The call was tracked down to Bihar’s Panjibara.
Panjibara received a police force dispatched from Bhangagarh Police Station. They were able to rescue both females and capture the person who had placed the extortion call, Tanveer Alom, during a search and rescue operation.
