Continuing with its crackdown on human traffickers along the India-Bangladesh, the National Investigation Agency (NIA) on Friday arrested four more accused involved in illegal infiltration into India via Tripura.
According to the press release of the NIA, the arrests which were made on Friday was made in a joint operation with the Tripura police, as part of the human trafficking case registered by NIA in Guwahati in October this year.
The accused will be brought to Guwahati in Assam after obtaining orders from the court at Agartala, for their further production before the NIA Special Court in Guwahati, it stated.
Earlier, on November 8 last the NIA arrested 29 key operatives from the state following nationwide raids on human trafficking syndicates involved in the case.
According to the NIA, the accused arrested on Friday were located close to the Indo-Bangladesh international border and were linked with the 29 persons arrested earlier in the case. They had been carrying out human trafficking activities at the behest of racketeers belonging to well organised syndicates active in several districts of the north-eastern state of Tripura, it stated, adding that the network of syndicates was further connected to operatives based in other parts of India.
Investigations of the NIA further revealed that the four arrested accused were coordinating with traffickers operating from across the international border to facilitate illegal infiltration of persons of Bangladeshi origin into India.
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