Haryana Forms Special Team To Probe Human Trafficking, Immigration Fraud

Chandigarh:

Haryana House Minister Anil Vij on Tuesday stated a seven-member particular investigation crew (SIT) has been constituted to research circumstances of human trafficking and immigration fraud within the state.

This comes days after circumstances have been registered, following claims by way of lots of the 76 Haryana citizens who have been deported from the United States, that they have been sufferers of human trafficking.

The SIT can be headed by way of Inspector Normal of Police (IGP), Karnal Vary, Bharti Arora, Mr Vij stated.

Different participants of the crew are IPS officials Nazneen Bhasin, Rahul Sharma, Himanshu Garg, Lokendra Singh, Shashank Kumar and Mohit Handa, he stated.

In step with the minister, the SIT will completely examine and take motion in all circumstances associated with sending other folks out of the country via unlawful method and human trafficking.

Mr Vij stated those that are despatched out of the country via unlawful method incessantly have pitiable stories to relate as they’re taken via unhealthy routes and face torture alongside the way in which.

“Steadily those other folks narrate stories of being tortured and now not being given meals or water,” he stated.

The 76 Haryana citizens who have been deported from the United States have been a part of a gaggle of over 160 Indians who arrived at Amritsar in Punjab on a distinct chartered flight on Might 19.

Lots of the deported Indian nationals had entered the United States from its southern border with Mexico, after onerous all criminal choices. They have been arrested by way of the Immigration and Customs Enforcement or ICE whilst making an attempt to go into the United States illegally.

Seventy-three circumstances have been registered as maximum of the ones deported from the United States claimed that they have been sufferers of “kabootarbazi” (human trafficking), Mr Vij had stated on Friday.