6 Bangladeshis Sentenced to Life Imprisonment for Human Trafficking

The convicted persons Mohd Yousuf Khan, his wife Bithi Begum, Sojib Ruhul Amin Dhali, Mohd Abdul Salam Kounla Justin and Sheela Justin alias Shiuli Khatun were arrested by the NIA in 2019 and found guilty under various sections of IPC and Immoral Traffic. ) Law, 1986.

The sixth accused, Dhali, was arrested in West Bengal. The rest were caught between 2019 and 2020 in Telangana. In its order Wednesday, the special court imposed a fine of $24,000 in addition to a life sentence, which is usually 14 years.

If payment is not made, the defendant faces an additional 18 months of simple imprisonment.

NIA investigation had revealed that the accused lured Bangladeshi women with promises of lucrative jobs and decent wages and trafficked them from Bangladesh to India where they were forced into prostitution.

Telangana police had registered the original case at Chatrinaka Police Station after rescuing five young women from a house in Kandikal Gate area of ​​Uppuguda, Hyderabad, during an operation in August 2019. NIA took over the investigation and re-registered the case on September 17. , 2019.

The agency filed an indictment against four of the defendants on March 10, 2020, and then filed an additional charge against the remaining two in August 2020.