RACKET OF HUMAN TRAFFICKING BUSTED,7 NEPALESE GIRLS RESCUED AT IGI AIRPORT

1 KG OF FINE HEROINE WORTH 1.5 CR. IN INTERNATIONAL MARKET SEIZED BY NARCOTIC CELL

A Racket of Human Trafficking  busted and  7 Nepalese girls rescued at IGI Airport, New Delhi

On 21/07/2015 at about 1200 hrs. CISF officials on suspicion handed over a complaint along with 7 Nepalese pax (girls)  to AFRRO mentioning therein that these passengers were found in transit area and on verbal enquiry could not replied satisfactorily and requested thereby to check documents i.e. passports, VISAs and boarding passes. Immigration officials enquired the matter and gave a complaint alleging therein that these 7 Nepalese girls who were arrived as domestic passengers from Ahmadabad by Flight No. AI 011 on 20/07/2015 and tried to cheat Indian Immigration with active connivance of Air India staff namely Manish Gupta and Kapil Kumar who issued boarding passes for flight No. AI 995 (destination Dubai, departure date 21/07/2015 and boarding time 2000 hrs.) were issued on 20/07/2015 at about 2137-2140 hrs. But as per Immigration existing procedure a pax arriving by domestic flight and intended to travel abroad needs to obtain the departure Immigration clearance from departing Airport. By issuing the boarding passes for flight No. AI 995 without proper checking of Immigration stamps required for departure and endorsing “T” (transit) manually with ball pen, the above employee of Air India SATS facilitated the pax to slip of the departure of the Immigration clearance to board the flight directly.  Accordingly, a case vide FIR No. 318/2015 dated 21/07/2015 U/S 420/468/471/120B/34 IPC PS IGI Airport, New Delhi was registered.

Investigation

 

A joint team of Local Police, IB, Special Cell and Anti Human Trafficking Unit ( Crime Branch ) of Delhi Police  interrogated all these seven Nepalese girls who revealed that they entered into India by land route and their journey was arranged by one agent namely Raju with his associates of Air India staff on the deception of providing them handsome jobs in Dubai which suggested that this is a case of human trafficking and these girls are actually victims in this case. Therefore, section 370 IPC has been added. All these 7 girls are being sent to Nari Niketan for further proceedings.

 

Accused arrested

Two employees of Air India SATS namely Kapil Kumar S/o Sh. Devi Singh R/o Vill. Chhebariya PS & PO Sardhana Distt. Meerut (UP) and Manish Gupta S/o Satish Kumar Gupta R/o H. No. 366/PN Campel Road, Lucknow (UP) have been arrested in this case who issued boarding passes to these Nepalese girls without proper checking  mentioning hand written “T” (transit passenger) to avoid Immigration clearance while they were International passengers and intended to go to Dubai by flight No. AI- 995.  Police remand of both the above accused persons are being obtained for sustained interrogation and to identify / arrest agents and other persons involved in the racket. The investigation of the case is in progress.

 

 

 

( M.I. HAIDER )

Deputy Commissioner of Police

IGI, Airport, New Delhi 

 

Source: Delhi Police (PR CELL)

Author: sarkarimirror