NIA Hyderabad: 6 people gets life imprisonment for trafficking Bangladeshi girls
Hyderabad: Nearly after five years, six people involved in human trafficking of Bangladeshi girls were convicted by the National Investigation Agency (NIA) special court in Hyderabad on Wednesday.
According to the official information, the NIA Special Court in the city on November 6, 2024 convicted and sentenced to life imprisonment all the six accused in a 2019 human trafficking case involving Bangladeshi girls, who were forced into prostitution after being smuggled into India.
Getting into the details, the accused were identified as Mohammad Yousuf Khan, his wife Bithi Begum, Sojib, Ruhul Amin Dhali, Mohammed Abdul Salam alias Kounla Justin and Sheela Justin alias Shiuli Khatun. They have been found guilty under various sections of Indian Penal Code(IPC) and Prevention of Immoral Trafficking Act, 1986.
It is pertinent to note that of the six accused, Dhali was arrested from West Bengal while the others were nabbed from Telangana between 2019 and 2020.
The special court, in its orders passed on November 6, 2024, sentenced all the six accused to life imprisonment and imposed a fine of Rs. 24,000. In the case of default of payment, the accused will face an additional 18 months of simple imprisonment.
Bangladeshi girls lured in the name of jobs
Revealing further details, NIA said that in its investigation they have come to know that the accused had lured Bangladeshi girls with the promise of lucrative jobs and decent pay, and trafficked them from Bangladesh into India, where they were forced into prostitution.
Further, Telangana police had registered the original case at Chatrinaka police station after rescuing five girls from a house in Kandikal Gate area of Uppuguda, Hyderabad, during an operation in August 2019. NIA took over the probe and re-registered the case on 17th September 2019. The agency had filed a chargesheet against four of the accused on 10th March 2020, followed by a supplementary chargesheet against the remaining two in August 2020.
