2 Women Among Three Arrested, 14 Others Rescued; More Arrests Likely
Srinagar- Police on Friday busted a human trafficking gang in Central Kashmir’s Budgam district by arresting three people, including two women, besides rescuing 14 victims, many of them minors.
Shamim Ahmad Bhat and his two women accomplices’ Shagufta and Asmat, all residents of Dulipora Parthan were arrested after a police team carried out a raid based on information about of human trafficking being operational in the district, a police spokesperson said Friday.
The police team, he said, also rescued 14 women victims, including some minors from the Bhat’s house in Dulipora and its adjacent places.
During preliminary investigation, the spokesperson said, it has been found that the three accused persons are involved in human trafficking by means of procuring the girls from different places and exploiting them in district Budgam and other parts of the valley.
“Further investigation into the case is going on and more arrests are expected,” he said, adding that the rescued human trafficking victims have been shifted to Nari Niketan Rehabilitation Centre, Chadoora and process for their rehabilitation has been initiated.
Accordingly, the spokesperson said, a case FIR No. 370/2022 under relevant sections of law was registered at police Station Budgam.
Meanwhile, a police officer told Kashmir Observer that the medical examination of the rescued women was carried out while the accused have also been taken into remand.
“I think in a couple of days we will come to know if this gang was bringing women here to get them married against money, or there were other angles to it,” the officer said, adding that all the rescued women were apparently from other states of the country.
The officer also suspected that the gang was not only operating in Budgam but other districts as well.
“We’ll dig it out in the coming days, but possibly they operated in other districts of Kashmir as well,” he added.
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