The accused Muhammed Farook and Ali are still absconding after escaping from police
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Kozikhode: The kingpins of a human trafficking racket, who had brought two Bengali girls to the city for prostitution, could have fled the State, police sources said. Malappuram-native Muhammed Farook and Bangalore-native Ali, who escaped from their car when the police intercepted them at Mavoor Road on Friday, are still absconding. The police arrested Farook’s driver and aide Aneesh Joseph, a native of North Coorg, while rescuing the girls.
Search for the men have been intensified. The girls were bought in from Bangalore and the racketeers planned to sell them to the flesh trade in Malappuram. The girls were just 18 and 19 years of age. They told the police that they were offered Rs 2,000 per day as wages, while they were being brought to Kerala.
Farook had been regularly bringing women to Kerala from Bangalore. Agents who bring girls from Mumbai and Bengal sell them at Bangalore. These girls are then ‘purchased’ by racketeers like Farook and taken to different parts of South India.
Meanwhile, Amicus Curiae Aparna Bhatt, who was appointed by the Supreme Court to investigate the trafficking of children to Kerala, told the court that the case of bringing in children from other states to Kerala did not come under human trafficking. The Government and the Muslim League had been maintaining that bringing children to Kerala for educating them could not be termed as human trafficking.
( Source : dc correspondent )
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