A Nicaragua-bound charter flight, with 303 Indian passengers on board, was grounded in France over suspected "human trafficking". The flight landed in Mumbai on December 26 with 276 Indian passengers as 27 of them decided to stay back in France.
BOBIGNY (France), Dec 28 Twenty-five Indian passengers from a plane grounded in France on suspicion of human trafficking have been released by a judge, prosecutors said.
The judge stated that the head of the border police at France’s main Charles De Gaulle airport did not refer the case to him within the stipulated time.
Twenty-five Indian passengers who had stayed behind seeking asylum in France after their flight from the UAE was grounded last week over suspicion of human trafficking before being allowed to take off for India have now been freed,
India’s intelligence agencies are looking at a larger conspiracy where people from Punjab and Gujarat travel as tourists but never return to the country, and seek asylum citing ‘religious persecution’