Human trafficking racket: Probe reveals links with few mobile recharge outlets

Human trafficking racket: Probe reveals links with few mobile recharge outlets

Mangalore Today News Network

Kundapur, Jan 17, 2013: Investigations into the human trafficking racket which was unearthed in Kundapur recently, have revealed that  young girls were lured into the trap of flesh trade after getting their mobile numbers from the mobile recharge outlets  where they had been for recharge purposes.

 

It is believed that there was a well-planned racket of luring girls into the trap after the girls are called on their number, befriended and eventually misused.

Of the nine persons  arrested recently, three are running mobile recharge outlets and reportedly had noted down the numbers of the girls and used them for immoral activities after luring them.

According to reports, the girls are promised jobs whenever some customer approaches and eventually the hapless girls end themselves up in the trap after they are blackmailed.

In the latest case, Iqbal who owned a mobile shop, had  passed on the numbers to Nayana, another member of their gang who developed friendship with the girls. The main accused Suresh  used to identify rich men and send the girls to them through Nayana. The racket, it is learnt, had shifted its activities to Goa after the homestay attack case in Mangalore.

The racketeers it is said were also involved in a drugs racket which was operative through a beauty parlour in  Mangalore run by a woman from Shimoga.

Incidentally, this flesh trade racket was unearthed when police were tracking down the calls of one of the suspects in the case of the murder of RTI activist and Congress leader Vasudeva Adiga.