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A human trafficking victim who recently escaped the Indian city of Chennai and returned to Bangladesh filed a case against her husband who sold her to the human trafficking racket for Tk 40,000. The 20-year-old woman yesterday filed the case with Hatirjheel Police Station naming nine members of the trafficking ring, including her husband, Hafiz Al Faruk, additional deputy
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Two members of a transnational racket today confessed to a magistrate that they were involved in trafficking young women and girls to India for one year.
They are: Mehedi Hasan Babu and Mohiuddin.
Dhaka Metropolitan Magistrate Debbrata Biswas recorded the confessional statements of Mehedi and Mohiuddin after the duo were produced at the magistrate s chamber on completion of a five-day remand in a case filed for trafficking a young girl who returned home from India last month after escaping captivity, court sources said.
Many cannot even imagine the brutalities an 18-year-old girl endured for more than two months.
Saima (not her real name) yesterday recounted to The Daily Star her horrid tale of going from making TikTok videos to becoming a prey of human trafficking and being physically, sexually assaulted and raped in a foreign land.
When she was not being abused, she was locked in a tiny dark room for days without food.
Saima is one of three Bangladeshi victims, aged between 18 and 25, who managed to flee from the clutches of the trafficking racket in India. She came back to Bangladesh 77 days after being trafficked to India.
After being held captive by a sex trafficking gang in India's Bengaluru for 77 days, three victims who managed to flee and return home told police of their ordeal and informed that many others are still being held by the racket. One of them, a 16-year-old girl, filed a case accusing 12 suspects under the human trafficking prevention act with Hatirjheel Police Station in the