No Trafficking: Border Police After 42 Children From Assam Rescued

SSB Inspector General of Frontier Headquarters, Sanjeev Sharma said some bad elements take advantage of the economic condition of the poor people and indulge in trafficking them.

Days after 42 people were rescued from human traffickers, a senior Sashastra Seema Bal (SSB) officer has claimed that most of the people in Assam are migrating to other states in search of better avenues rather than being trafficked. SSB Inspector General of Frontier Headquarters, Sanjeev Sharma said some bad elements take advantage of the economic condition of the poor people and indulge in trafficking them. "There is not much difference between human trafficking and migration of population. When people find greener pastures and get better salaries, then they go to far away places also. It is not proper to term it as human trafficking," he told PTI in an interview. Mr Sharma cited examples of many tea gardens, which have closed down and their workers have migrated to other places.