NIA May Probe Cross-Border Trafficking Racket Busted By MP’s Gwalior GRP, Two Rohingya Suspects Held

The Government Railway Police in Gwalior have uncovered an international human trafficking racket, which may now be investigated by the National Investigation Agency (NIA) due to its cross-border nature. Two men, Mohammad Hasan and Mubeen, both of Rohingya ethnicity, have been arrested in connection with the scheme. GRP superintendent of police Ankit Jaiswal disclosed that the suspects entered Bangladesh before crossing into India, using refugee cards as identification.

Hasan, who lives in Hyderabad with two children from his first marriage to a woman in Bangladesh, later married a third woman in Hyderabad and has four children with her. The investigation began after GRP received information about a foreign national traveling on the Swarnajayanti Express. Mubeen was detained, leading police to Hasan in Aligarh, where four Bangladeshi girls, including two minors, were rescued.

These girls were reportedly smuggled into India via riverine and mountainous routes and intended for marriage in Jammu and Kashmir.

The probe has revealed that Hasan and Mubeen obtained Bangladeshi girls from impoverished families, housed them in rented accommodations in Aligarh, and arranged marriages in Jammu and Kashmir. Their accomplice, Hamdullah, based in Bangladesh, facilitated their crossing of the Bangladesh-India border through donkey routes. Adil, an alleged facilitator still at large, allegedly sold the girls in Jammu and Kashmir under the pretense of marriage arrangements.

GRP officials stated that the network has already trafficked at least two girls from Bangladesh to Jammu and Kashmir for marriage.