Police in Bangladesh are looking for the suspected members of an international gang which has been trafficking young women to India and and forcing them to become sex workers. The women they target are mostly the users of video-sharing app TikTok. In the last two days, the capital's Hatirjheel police took three India-returnee victims in custody and detained four boys, sources
Meanwhile, a special police team has gone to a neighbouring state to trace the victim, a 22-year-old woman, who has been taken along with two other unidentified accused who are yet to be arrested.
Saima [not her real name], 15, led a regular teenage life of this generation, making videos on popular mobile app TikTok, before she was trafficked to India with the promise of a better job. She was one of the victims of Rifatul Islam Ridoy, 26, popularly known as Ridoy Babo on TikTok, who lured her to the South Indian city Bengaluru promising her a well-paid job two months
Bengaluru: 5 Bangladeshi nationals arrested for brutal gangrape
Five people including a woman were arrested in Bengaluru on Thursday (May 27) for allegedly raping a woman and torturing her. 5 Bangladeshi nationals arrested for brutal gangrape , (File image for representation)
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Updated: May 28, 2021, 02:10 PM IST
Five people including a woman were arrested in Bengaluru on Thursday (May 27) for allegedly raping a woman and torturing her. The video of the gangrape and assault had gone viral on social media in northeast India. The arrests were made after the Assam Police shared visuals from a video to trace the accused. All five accused were arrested from Bangladesh. The incident also took place almost six days ago in Bengaluru.