LUCKNOW: The Uttar Pradesh Anti-Terrorist Squad (UP ATS) on Tuesday arrested a Bangladeshi and two of his Rohingya accomplices from Ghaziabad on charges of human trafficking.
UPATS sleuths also rescued two girls belonging to Myanmar, aged 16 and 18, from the clutches of the gang members who were identified as Mohammed Noor, Rehmatullah, and Shabiullah.
“Mohammed Noor was a Bangladeshi and mastermind of the gang, while Rehmatullah and Shabiullah were Rohingyas. The gang members were involved in human trafficking, gold smuggling and helping other refugees including women and children sneak into the country through various channels,” said ADG, law and order, Prashant Kumar.
Kumar also said that Noor used to lure women from Myanmar on pretext of marriage and men on pretext of jobs.
Later, they sneaked via Bangladesh illegally into India and got them jobs in factories.
“Also prepared their fake certificates of Indian identity while the women were trafficked,” added Kumar.
On the other hand, inspector general of police, ATS, Gajendra Kumar Goswamy, said that based on electronic surveillance, they tracked the gang members along with the two girls in Ghaziabad railway station.
They were going to Delhi via Brahmaputra Mail.
“We arrested three and rescued the two girls who were sent to Asha Jyoti Kendra in Lucknow. We question them later,” said Goswamy.
