Srinagar- A human trafficking racket was busted in Jammu and Kashmir’s Bandipora district with the arrest of five people, including a Rohingya refugee, police said on Sunday.
The Rohingya was identified as Manzoor Alam, they said.
“The accused trafficked Rohingya women via Bangladesh and got them married to locals in Union Territory in exchange for money,” the official said.
A case has been registered and an investigation is underway, the official added.
In October 2017, the Ministry of Home Affairs (MHA) ordered all state governments to identify and monitor Rohingya refugees.
Thousands of Rohingya Muslims, described by the UN as the most persecuted minority in the world, fled their homes in 2017 to escape an alleged crackdown by the Myanmarese military.
6 Bangladeshis Detained In Jammu
Meanwhile six Bangladeshi women and girls, who had illegally crossed into India, were detained by police from two separate localities here, officials said on Monday.
Preliminary investigation suggests that five of them had reached Jammu with the help of a tout and were heading for Kashmir when they were picked up from Bathindi, they said.
Another woman, also a Bangladeshi national who got married in Ramban district of Jammu, was from Gandhi Nagar. She was supposed to accompany the other women and girls to Kashmir, officials said.
Those detained are aged between 14 and 60 years, they said.
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