Hyderabad NIA Court Convicts 9, Including 8 Bangladeshis, in Human Trafficking Case
The court has also imposed a total fine of Rs.1.37 lakh on the convicted accused, with a further sentence of three months' simple imprisonment in default of payment of fine
Hyderabad: The special court for NIA cases in Hyderabad has convicted and sentenced nine persons including eight Bangladeshi nationals to life imprisonment in a 2019 human trafficking case involving Bangladeshi women who were trafficked into India and subsequently forced into prostitution.
In its verdict delivered on Thursday, the court has also imposed a total fine of Rs.1.37 lakh on the convicted accused, with a further sentence of three months' simple imprisonment in default of payment of fine.
The case pertains to a human trafficking network involved in trafficking Bangladeshi women into India by luring them with promises of lucrative employment and decent wages, and subsequently forcing them into prostitution.
The original case was registered by Telangana police at Pahadishareef police station in Hyderabad, following an operation in September 2019, during which three Bangladeshi women were rescued from a brothel being operated at Jalpally village, and another woman was rescued from a house at Mahimood Colony in Balapur.
The NIA took over the investigation and re-registered the case on October 12 2019 as RC-03/2019/NIA/HYD. During the investigation, the involvement of the accused in the trafficking network was established, following which NIA filed a chargesheet against A1 to A12, including absconding accused A1, A3 and A7, on October 17 2020.
During the investigation, the accused persons were arrested from different locations, including West Bengal and Telangana, during 2019 and 2020. The accused persons, namely Ruhul Amin Dhali (A2), Mohd Yousuf Khan alias Md Imran (A4), Bithi Begum alias Khadija Shaik (A5), Imamul Ghazi alias Mohd Rana Hussain (A6), Mohammed Al Mamun (A8), Sojib Shaik (A9), Suresh Kumar Das alias Sagor (A10), Mohd Abdulla Munshi alias Abdul Sarkar (A11) and Mohd Ayub Shaik (A12), were prosecuted under various provisions of the IPC, the Foreigners Act, 1946, and the Immoral Traffic (Prevention) Act, 1956.
