New Delhi: The Border Security Force (BSF) has rescued two Bangladeshi women from the clutches of a human trafficking gang from Ranghat area of West Bengal's North 24 Parganas district on Wednesday wee hour.
Acting on the intelligence input at the border outpost-Ranghat, a team of the Border Security Force personnel rescued two Bangladeshi young women from a human smuggling racket.
The two women have been identified as the residents of Cumilla and Narsingdi districts of Bangladesh.
"On August 18, on receipt of intelligence related to human trafficking, the Company Commander sent a special party to the suspected area of the Border Out Post- Ranghat. At around 20:45, the jawans observed three people moving on a motorcycle which included one young man who was driving along with two women," an official said.
"The soldiers asked the bike rider to stop but the motorcycle rider left the motorcycle there and all of them started running backwards. Upon chase, the jawans caught 2 women while the motorcycle rider managed to escape by taking advantage of the darkness. On checking, we seized a motorcycle which is registered in the name of Mohammad Rahman Dafadar of Runghat area. Rs. 6537 and a mobile phone was also seized from the women' possession," the official said.
"On being questioned, one of the women revealed that she is 24 years old and a widow. She told that she belongs to District - Cumilla Bangladesh. While the other woman told that she is 19 years old and belongs to District - Narsingdi, Bangladesh. Further, they revealed that both of them planned to come to India for employment due to poverty in their families," the official said.
"Both stated that they were brought to the house of one human trafficking kingpin of Bangladesh who lives near to border area by their close relatives yesterday evening. The Bangladeshi taut spoke to an Indian taut named Mohammad Rahman Dafadar over the telephone. Indian taut conveyed that both women after crossing the International Border will find a boy on a motorcycle ready to take them to Bangaon," the official added.
As per women, they would have been taken to Bangaon to an unknown Indian taut who was to give them employment in Beauty Parlour there. In most cases of human trafficking, it has often been found that brokers who indulge the innocent, illiterate and poor girls in human trafficking, often push them into prostitution by promising to give them jobs in Beauty Parlors. But due to the alertness shown by the Border Security Force personnel in duty in this case, both the Bangladeshi women were rescued at the appropriate time, before they could have entangled in the web trap of sexual trafficking," the official further added.
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