Our correspondent :
RAB-14 has arrested husband Yusuf and his accomplice Rabbil Sheikh on charges of selling two sisters (wife and sister-in-law) of Rasulpur village in Gafargaon upazila to India on the pretext of getting a higher salary. On Friday, members of RAB-14’s expedition team arrested Yusuf from Balihata in Ishwarganj upazila of Mymensingh and Rabbil Sheikh from Sreepur in Gazipur. RAB 14 captain Lt. at a press conference on Saturday afternoon. Colonel Abu Naeem Md. Talat gave this information.
During preliminary interrogation, the detainees confessed to being involved in human trafficking. Husband Yusuf sold his wife Kulsuma Akhter (22) and sister-in-law Sumaiya Akhter (19) to India with the help of human traffickers.
Kulchuma Akhter, 22, and Sumaiya Akhter, 18, of Rasulpur village in Gafargaon upazila. They took a job two years ago at a biscuit company of Ridisha Foot and Beverage in Jaina Bazar area of Sreepur upazila. Then gain friendship and trust.
At one point, Yusuf, a trafficker, fell in love with his older sister Kulchuma and married her without informing anyone in the family.
These two helpless women workers fall into the hands of the traffickers.
Then misery came down in their lives. In the first week of March, two months after their love affair, Kulchuma and Sumaiya were trafficked to India. Isuf, a member of the women’s trafficking gang, and his accomplices smuggled Kulchuma Akhter and Mosha Sumaiya Akhter to India through the Jivannagar border, earning a monthly income of Rs 40,000-50,000 a month. He then took the two sisters to the Ranaghat area of India for Rs 3 lakh and sold them to Bablu / Rahul, a woman businessman.
The story of their torment begins. They were kept in various houses and hotels in Digha area of West Bengal for prostitution. The two sisters were kept in separate places. Electric shocks were given without listening to women traders. They were kept under strict surveillance. When the lockdown started in Corona, West Bengal on May 18, the surveillance of women traffickers was relaxed. On this occasion the two sisters escaped from the hell of the women traffickers.
On May 18, Anikh was arrested by the police in Howrah station area. Police rescued him and handed him over to the Indian government’s Safe Home Participatory Research and Action Network in the Sealdah area of Kolkata. Kulchuma was arrested by the Indian Border Security Force (BSF) on May 21 while trying to enter Bangladesh illegally through the Indian border. The BSF handed him over to the Indian police.
