KOLKATA: An organised human trafficking network operating in North Bengal -- specifically targeting young women from areas near several closed tea gardens -- has emerged as a major challenge for the West Bengal police.
Over the last six days, authorities have rescued 90 women from the prime township in North Bengal, Siliguri in Darjeeling district, before they were trafficked. What is intriguing is that the traffickers are frequently changing their modes of transportation for getting these women trafficked to other states.
The investigating officers are also probing the involvement of fake voluntary and non-government organisations, which had been running offices in these areas, posing as organisations promising social and economic welfare of vulnerable women from the closed tea garden area.