Three Nationals Of Myanmar Cost-Sheeted By NIA In Human Trafficking Case

New Delhi, Feb 4: The Nationwide Investigation Company (NIA) has filed a charge-sheet in opposition to three nationals of Myanmar in a case involving the unlawful infiltration and trafficking of international nationals, primarily of Rohingya origin, into India by means of the India-Bangladesh border, an official mentioned on Sunday.
The accused are Rabi Islam alias “Rabiul Islam”, Shafi Alam alias “Sofi Alom” alias “Sayedul Islam”, and Mohammad Usman — all everlasting residents of Maungdaw district in Myanmar — a spokesperson of the federal company mentioned.
In keeping with the NIA, that they had entered India illegally, in collusion with traffickers and touts, with out legitimate journey paperwork and have been additionally concerned in facilitating the infiltration of quite a few different international nationals by means of unauthorised and unlawful border routes.
A part of a well-organised community of traffickers and touts concerned in numerous unlawful actions, they have been additionally engaged in luring susceptible Rohingya ladies, who had taken refuge in Bangladesh, into India on the false guarantees of marriage to Rohingya males, the official mentioned.
The NIA mentioned such ladies have been then bought for compelled marriages throughout numerous Indian states, together with Uttar Pradesh, Rajasthan, Jammu and Kashmir, Telangana and Haryana.
The NIA’s investigation uncovered cases and proof of forgery of paperwork and established that Rabi Islam and Mohammad Usman had obtained Aadhaar playing cards fraudulently.
The duo had additionally used these playing cards to acquire a number of SIM playing cards and open financial institution accounts, additional concealing their true identities, the spokesperson mentioned.
With this cost sheet, the official mentioned the NIA, which had began probing the case on November 7 final yr, has taken a major step in the direction of uncovering and dismantling a serious worldwide human trafficking racket. (Companies)