Dimapur, April 12: Dimapur police have unearthed a ‘major human trafficking racket’ operating in Nagaland.
A press release from the PRO Dimapur police yesterday stated that the racket was ‘unearthed’ by the District Anti- Human Trafficking Unit, DAHTU under Dimapur Police after two girls from the state, who were rescued and kept in a shelter home at Pune, were repatriated back home. According to the police, basing on the information supplied by the rescued girls, the anti-trafficking unit arrested 4 persons.
The accused persons were arrested from the state as well as the neighboring Assam. Functioning in an organized network, the traffickers targeted victims by luring them with prospective jobs or abducting them and supplied to the source through chains of traffickers.
The DAHTU is investigating into the case to identify and rescue more such victims.