CBI gets lead into women trafficking racket linked to fake passport scam in Bengal and Sikkim

As part of the crackdown on the fake passport racket, searches were conducted at 50 places in Kolkata, Gangtok, Siliguri, Darjeeling, and Alipurduar

PGurus Newsdesk

October 16, 2023

As part of the crackdown on the fake passport racket, searches were conducted at 50 places in Kolkata, Gangtok, Siliguri, Darjeeling, and Alipurduar

Woman trafficking racket: CBI secures critical information about accused’s connections to an agent network in Nepal

In a probe into the fake passport case in West Bengal and Sikkim, the Central Bureau of Investigation (CBI) has uncovered links to an international woman trafficking racket.

On Saturday night, after the arrest of a man, identified as Varun Singh Rathor, from Naxalbari under the Siliguri sub-division in the Darjeeling district of West Bengal, the CBI sleuths have secured some definite clues of this link.

Rathor is the second person to be arrested in connection with CBI’s ongoing investigation in the fake passport case, the first being the Gangatok’s Passport Seva Laghu Kendra Senior Superintendent Goutam Kumar Saha, who was arrested while accepting a bribe of Rs 1.90 lakh.

Sources said that the central agency sleuths have secured crucial information about Rathor’s links with an agent network in Nepal, who were mainly responsible for trafficking Indian women, mainly from West Bengal and Sikkim, through the neighbouring country.

The suspicion of the CBI on this count deepened as the majority of the fake passports recovered from Rathor were that of women mainly hailing from northern West Bengal and adjacent Sikkim.

As part of the crackdown on the fake passport racket, searches were conducted at 50 places in Kolkata, Gangtok, Siliguri, Darjeeling, and Alipurduar.

[With Inputs from IANS]

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