The States being searched by the NIA in the cases include Tripura, Assam, West Bengal, Karnataka, Tamil Nadu, Telangana, Haryana, Puducherry, Rajasthan, and Jammu and Kashmir.
On November 8, the National Investigation Agency (NIA) conducted searches in ten states related to possible cases of human trafficking. The States being searched by the NIA in the cases include Tripura, Assam, West Bengal, Karnataka, Tamil Nadu, Telangana, Haryana, Puducherry, Rajasthan, and Jammu and Kashmir.
Several NIA teams launched these operations in response to certain details regarding suspects engaged in human trafficking. According to NIA sources, the agency is searching more than forty locations in these ten states in an effort to find networks of international human traffickers.
In close cooperation with State police agencies, raids are underway on the domiciles and other places of people connected to these crimes. On November 7, NIA’s several teams began raids in the ten states early on the basis of particular information against people connected to the homicide.
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According to NIA sources, NIA investigators are searching over forty locations throughout these ten states in an effort to uncover the network of human traffickers with connections abroad. An evading suspect from Tamil Nadu was apprehended by a Bengaluru-based NIA team last month in connection with a human trafficking case in Sri Lanka.
Imran Khan, one of the accused’s co-accused, and other individuals transported citizens of Sri Lanka to different parts of Bengaluru and Mangaluru. Because of the case’s global scope, the federal agency had taken control from the local police.
In October 2021, the National Investigation Agency (NIA) submitted a preliminary charge sheet against five Indian defendants in this case: Dhinakaran, also known as Ayya, Kasi Viswanathan, Rasool, Satham Ushen, and Abdul Muheetu. The NIA had convicted 13 individuals in the case by the end of October this year.
Similar to this, the NIA is looking into additional examples of human trafficking in which traffickers deceive innocent people by offering them the chance to get legal papers for emigration to Canada, employment possibilities, and other benefits.
In an effort to stop a human trafficking ring, the National Investigation Agency (NIA) captured a Rohingya Muslim from Myanmar on Wednesday while conducting raids at several places in the Jammu and Samba districts of Jammu and Kashmir, an official said.
According to the official, the raids were limited to impoverished neighborhoods that housed immigrants from Myanmar and were carried out in conjunction with a case involving human trafficking and violations of the Passports Act.
Around two in the morning, Zaffar Alam was taken into arrest from his temporary home in the Bathindi neighborhood of Jammu, while another accused person is still loose, according to the official.
Furthermore, during operations on Wednesday, the National Investigation Agency (NIA) also arrested eight Bangladeshis who were residing illegally in Bengaluru.
According to sources, the NIA teams carried out simultaneous raids at 15 places, including the state capital’s and its surrounding areas’ Soladevanahalli, K.R. Puram, and Bellandur regions.
At least eight Bangladeshis who had entered the nation covertly and stayed for an extended period of time were discovered by the cops during the raids. More information is still to come, as well as an official declaration in this regard. The raids were carried out early in the morning.
