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New Delhi, Nov 18 (IANS) The NIA has filed a charge sheet against 10 accused in a Bhubaneswar court in the case of trafficking of a minor Bangladeshi girl into Odisha from across the eastern border. An official gave this information on Tuesday.
The set of charges filed by the National Investigation Agency (NIA) before a special court accused the accused of luring the girl with the promise of employment and then pushing her into immoral trafficking to earn money.
During investigation, NIA found that the accused had taken advantage of the poor financial condition of his family to carry out the smuggling operation, leading to the exposure of a large human trafficking network.
Initially, Odisha Police had filed two chargesheets in the POCSO court against six accused in the case.
After taking over the investigation, NIA conducted searches at several places in West Bengal and arrested two more accused.
The NIA had to arrest two of his other associates after investigating their social media accounts and their financial transactions, the NIA said in a statement.
The agency has accordingly filed a charge sheet against all the 10 accused under various sections of the BNS 2023, Protection of Children from Sexual Offenses Act, 2012 and Immoral Traffic (Prevention) Act, 1956.
Earlier in another case, the NIA had filed a chargesheet against the mastermind in an interstate arms and narcotics smuggling case involving Pakistan-based operators.
In its charge sheet filed before the NIA special court, Jaipur last week, the investigating agency named Vishal Pachar, charging him under various sections of the UA(P) Act, Arms Act, NDPS Act and BNS.
The accused was allegedly involved in procurement, transportation and distribution of banned arms, ammunition and narcotics as part of an arms and drug trafficking network spread across the northern states of Rajasthan, Haryana and Punjab.
According to the NIA investigation in case RC-01/2025/NIA/JPR, Pakistan-based associates supported the main accused by facilitating the supply of arms, ammunition and heroin.
The consignments were dropped near the border areas using high-powered drones, and later taken back to the Indian border by the gang members for further distribution. The gang members also purchased illegal foreign weapons to arm themselves against the police and other government agencies.
–IANS
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