MHA alerts Bangladesh PM on cross boarder women trafficking
From Bhupen Goswami
GUWAHATI : Over 10,000 women, including Hindu girls, have been trafficked in the last 9 months in Bangladesh from West Bengal, Assam, Bihar, Jharkhand, UP and entire northeastern states due to Kovid-19’s lockdown, making this entire state the world’s worst Human trafficking transforms the region.Women trafficking along the India-Bangladesh borders is becoming a major concern for both countries. The BSF officer said that during interrogation of the women, it has been found that during the Kovid-19, the dance bars were closed due to lockdown and due to lack of employment, these women were illegally crossing the border with the help of Indian broker were brought to the border area.
A reliable source from the Border Security Force BSF said that women, including teenage girls, find their way through land and river routes, a journey supported by a sophisticated racket where businessmen use satellite phones to avoid arrest by middlemen. By the 15th of October this year, the Border Security Force has caught 1589 women crossing the borders illegally between the two countries.Those arrested include women who tried to enter India, as well as women who tried to cross the border between January 1 and October 15 with the help of brokers or secret informers. This is revealed by the data of the Ministry of Home Affairs. However, women are being trafficked from Bihar, Jharkhand, Uttar Pradesh, and West Bengal to the entire northeastern state.
These Indian women from Bangladesh reach Pakistan Israel Switzerland countries.According to reliable sources of the BSF, just as lakhs of millions of people from Bangladesh enter India illegally, similarly brokers across the border send Indian women to Bangladesh. Women from India continue to be smuggled into Bangladesh. India’s Ministry of Home Affairs is getting upset about this. According to sources, more and more Indian women are from West Bengal, Bihar, Uttar Pradesh and Assam.According to Home Ministry sources, the Ministry of Home Affairs has also written a letter to Bangladesh Prime Minister Sheikh Hasina in August this year to stop the smuggling of women in Bangladesh. is. This number is important, as it could break the previous years’ record by the end of 2020. If the number of women caught during trafficking has crossed 1500 in ten and a half months, it could cross the 2000 mark by the end of this year.
The number of women caught on the international border between India and Bangladesh was 936 in 2019, a record 1,107 in 2018 and 572 in 2017.This year, out of a total of 1589 women caught on the borders, 888 have been caught from South Bengal, followed by 14 from Tripura, 46 from Guwahati in Assam, 34 from North Bengal, 42 from Mizoram and Cachar and 21 from Meghalaya. is. India and Bangladesh share a 4,096.7 km long international border. Of this, West Bengal covers 2,216.7 km, Assam 263 km, Meghalaya 443 km, Tripura 856 km and MiZuram 318 km.The report states that maximum female trafficking cases have been reported from South Bengal, from where 958 women were caught while crossing into Bangladesh or entering India. This number was 620 in 2018 and 462 in 2017. Statistics show that Tripura ranked second in female trafficking in 2019, where 52 cases of Taskir have been reported. In 2018, 47 women have been caught crossing the border in 2018 and 14 in 2017. Guwahati in Assam ranked second after South Bengal in 2018, where 394 women were arrested while crossing the border. In 2019, the figure was eight while in 2017 it was six. The cases of trafficking of women through the North Bengal border, however, have seen a steep decline in the last few years. In 2017 the figure was 87, but in 2018 it is 39. At the same time in 2019, this number was 12 and till August 15 this year only four women were caught crossing the border. Only one woman was caught from Meghalaya frontier area till August 15 this year, while 11 women were caught last year. Six women were caught crossing the border in 2018 and three in 2017. The lowest number of female trafficking cases have been reported from Mizoram and Cachar in Assam.
