Dhubri police cracks down on human traffickers

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DHUBRI: If statistics are anything to go by, Dhubri may just be the happy hunting ground for girl traffickers. In the past three months, as many as five girls have been lured here and later kidnapped. However, Dhubri Superintendent of Police Abhijit Gaurav, having seen the spree of kidnapping of girls from different places of Dhubri district, swung into action and rescued these five girls from various parts of the country recently.

Most recently, a minor girl, who was kidnapped by luring her into an affair with a man, was rescued from Palghar of Maharashtra and brought to Dhubri and handed over to parents on Friday.

Being the fifth successful rescue operation that the Dhubri police have conducted outside the State in the last three months, it embodies the uncompromising and relentless crusade of Dhubri police against the menace of human trafficking.

A police source in Dhubri said that a police team led by sub-inspector Kapil Das of the Gauripur Police Station was assigned to carry the operation with the help of Maharashtra police.

When contacted, Dhubri Superintendent of Police Abhijit Gaurav told The Sentinel that in the Palghar case, the man who had kidnapped the minor girl was a driver and the duo at first had contacted each other through their Facebook accounts.

"When the missing diary was registered in Gauripur Police Station, police had no clue at all but with help of the girl's mobile number, police tracked her location at Palghar and I immediately contacted the Palghar Police Station, gave the location as shown in the mobile tower signal and accordingly police conducted raid in a house

and the man who had kidnapped her was caught. He later revealed and took the police to an another house where the girl was kept in the captivity," Gaurav said.

He also informed that the man who had kidnapped the girl is a married man and has children. So it is suspected to be a case of human trafficking and the police are investigating this angle with the hope that some important information might come out about the human trafficking from this part of western Assam to other States, Gaurav added.

Earlier, victims were recovered from Rajasthan, Haryana and West Bengal.

An Intelligence source informed that the racket has also penetrated into the adjoining districts of Kokrajhar, Barpeta, Goalpara, Sonitpur, Nagaon and Jorhat. The unsuspecting girls, most of them minors, are lured away to flesh trade dens in West Bengal, Uttar Pradesh, Haryana and Rajasthan.

Poverty and lack of awareness are seen to be the main reasons for the girls falling prey to traffickers, the source further informed.

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