10 trafficking victims child rescue from Arunachal by Assam Police

Tinsukia: Poverty is a compelling factor in the child trafficking industry worldwide. The story and horror of eleven boys and girls, including four minors, from a remote village in Assam’s eastern Tinsukia district was no different. But a swift operation by the Assam police, which spans two states, reunited at least ten of them with their families.
The police have arrested two persons – Deep Jyoti Gogoi, a resident of Lakhimpur district and Dipak Karmakar alias Guddu, a resident of Luhali settlement under Doomdooma police station in Tinsukia district – in connection with the child trafficking case. I have been arrested for alleged involvement.
Tinsukia Superintendent of Police Abhijeet Gurav said, “Based on a complaint at Doomdooma police station, an operation was launched and ten victims of human trafficking were rescued from Taksing Basti in Upper Subansiri district of Arunachal. All the victims belonged to Lohari of Talap. It is from the township.

Taksing Basti, a small village in the border state, is about 250 km northwest of Doomdooma.
Explaining the modus operandi, Sub-Inspector Dilip Das, investigating officer of the case, said the accused targeted youths from poor backgrounds and lured them with the promise of a good life and employment in Assam’s Silapathar. “But instead he took them to Taksing Basti under Nacho police station in neighboring Arunachal Pradesh, in case they were forced to do domestic work.”
Das was accompanied by WC Saraswati Upaddhayay of Talap police post and OC of ASI Nido Talar of Nachu police station.

“Based on a tip-off, we arrested local brokers and during custodial interrogation, one of them spilled the beans,” Das said, adding, “An operation was launched on March 31, based in Leeds. was.”
“After a 72-hour long operation, we finally managed to rescue 10 victims and returned on Monday. One girl escaped before the police could trace them. We are trying to trace her,” he said. Das added.
Das said, when he questioned the parents of the victims, most of whom were daily wage labourers, they told the police that their children had been forcibly taken away. However, no such evidence was found during the investigation.
According to the United Nations Department of Defense and Crime, the definition of trafficking in persons means “the recruitment, transportation, transfer, harboring or receipt of persons, through the threat or use of force or other forms of coercion, abduction, deception To give or receive payments or benefits to obtain the consent of a person having control over another person for the purpose of fraud, deceit, abuse of power or position of weakness or exploitation.”