NIA Arrests 6 For Trafficking And Helping Rohingyas Illegally Enter India
NDTV
2 Rohingya girls were also rescued from the Guwahati railway station, police sources said.
In a major development in the past few days, the National Investigation Agency (NIA) has busted an international human trafficking racket operating out of the border areas in northeast India. The NIA was investigating a case pertaining to the illegal trafficking of Rohingya Muslims into Indian territory to re-settle them on the basis of forged Indian identity documents. The agency had registered a case in the matter on December 27 last year.
Six people have been arrested in this case so far, four of them are from the Cachar district of Assam.
2 Rohingya girls were also rescued from the Guwahati railway station, police sources said.
The rackets were active in the border areas of Assam, West Bengal, Meghalaya and other parts of the country, they added.
