NIA files supplementary Charge Sheet in Hyderabad Human Trafficking Case

On Thursday, the NIA filed a supplementary charge sheet in Special Court, Hyderabad against a couple for their role in the trafficking of Bangladeshi girls & illegally crossing Indo-Bangladesh border for running a prostitution racket in Hyderabad and nearby places.

The Agency stated that the accused have been identified as Mohd Abdul Salam & his wife Shiuli Khatun.

According to an official press release, the case arose out of an FIR at Police Station Chatrinaka, Hyderabad dated April 21, 2019, pertaining to rescue of six Bangladeshi girls from brothel houses run by accused Mohd Yousuf Khan, Bithi Begum & Sojib Shaik.

The case was re-registered at National Investigation Agency, Hyderabad BO on Sept 17, 2019. NIA arrested accused Ruhul Amin Dhali & filed the first charge-sheet against Mohd Yousuf Khan, Bithi Begum, Sojib Shaik, & Ruhul Amin Dhali on March 10, 2020.

The probe established that Mohd Abdul Salam & Shiuli Khatun along with accused Mohd Yousuf Khan, Bithi Begum, Sojib Shaik, Ruhul Amin Dhali & others, were trafficking poor & young Bangladeshi girls into India through a well-organized network of agents in Bangladesh & India, by giving them false inducements of lucrative jobs, & subsequently forcing them into prostitution.
3 more girls were rescued by NIA on May 23, 2020, from the rented house of Mohammed Abdul Salam & Shiuli Khatun in Hayathnagar, Hyderabad.

During the raid, many incriminating articles & documents were seized from the house including multiple identity documents of trafficked girls, contraceptive pills, mobile phones & a large number of diaries & registers containing names & mobile numbers of various brothel agents to whom the trafficked girls were sent for sexual exploitation on a commission basis.

Further investigation in the case is underway.

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