Exclusive: Inside the migrant-smuggling cartel in West Bengal
Exclusive: Inside the migrant-smuggling cartel in West Bengal
An India Today TV investigation has found human smugglers doubling as money changers in poll-bound West Bengal, bringing illegal migrants via relatively weak defences along the international border.
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UPDATED: January 19, 2021 23:49 IST
India Today TV investigation has found that human smugglers are running thier business on India-Bangladesh border despite India s multi-pronged approach involving hi-tech surveillance, new observation posts, intense patrolling, fencing, and floodlighting | Representative photo from Getty Images
With reported cases of infiltration along the Bangladesh border down because of stringent measures, people smugglers on both sides seem to be working in tandem to sneak illegal migrants in through less secured routes, an India Today TV investigation has found.