NIA indicts 8 more charges in Bangladeshi, Rohingya human trafficking

Strengthening the noose around human trafficking syndicates operating across India, the National Investigation Agency (NIA) on Monday indicted eight more accused in a case involving the trafficking of Bangladeshi nationals and Rohingyas across the India-Bangladesh border as part of a transnational racket.

In its supplementary chargesheet, the NIA named Jalil Miah, Hanan Miah, fugitive Kajal Sarkar, Adhir Das and Anwar Hussain (also known as Mama), all operating from the north-eastern state of Tripura. is from the country. Other accused include fugitive Kamal Das, brother of previously indicted Amol Chandra Das of Silchar, and West Bengal-based Liton Chakraborty. The eighth accused is Bangladeshi national Rabiyl Hasan (also known as Rabiul Hassan).

Investigation revealed that Liton Chakraborty was involved in preparing Indian identity documents for Bangladeshi nationals using fake or falsified supporting documents. Rabiyl Hasan was found to have good relations with the accused arrested from Assam, West Bengal, Tripura, Tamil Nadu and Karnataka.

Earlier, the NIA had charged 24 Bangladeshi nationals under the Indian Penal Code, Foreigners Act and Passport (Entry into India) Act. The ongoing investigation (case RC-01/2023/NIA-GUW) continues to search for fugitives and other suspects, revealing a vast transnational human trafficking network operated by various facilitators, touts and traffickers in the Assam, Tripura, West Bengal and Bangladesh.

The investigation, which began in October 2023, found that trafficked people were forced into forced labor for low wages and exploited under threat of arrest by police. The case was initially registered by the Assam Special Task Force (STF) in September 2023.