Amid a spate of incidents of ‘trafficked’ women returning house (Punjab) within the current previous after being rescued from Oman, the Punjab Police suspect use of cryptocurrency within the racket to evade monetary trail.
The Punjab Bureau of Investigation chief has now written to the chief of particular investigation group (SIT) probing instances of Oman-returnees to additional examine if cryptocurrency was utilized in worldwide transactions whereas trafficking women overseas illegally.
The Bureau of Investigation has written to Protector Basic of Emigrants to perform a marketing campaign “to create consciousness on the practices and modus operandi being adopted by unauthorised brokers for recruiting labour from India”.
The Punjab women ‘trafficked’ to Oman had been largely alleged to have been pushed into slavery.
An SIT of Punjab Police was constituted final month after a number of women who had been lured to Gulf nations (Dubai in UAE, Muscat in Oman, and so forth.) by the false promise of a job and good cash the place they had been allegedly offered into slavery (to work as home assist in Oman with out being paid).
The preliminary probe by the SIT has revealed that out of 23 instances it analysed within the current months, 5 women didn’t press for registration of any case towards the journey brokers involved. Within the remaining 18 complaints, FIRs had been registered. The complainant women largely stated they had been ‘offered out’, made to work as “home assist” in Oman with out wage and had been subjected to inhumane therapy.
The probe underlines that among the many victims had been those that made their means again on “white passport”, probably the most highly effective passports issued by India, primarily diplomatic in nature and permitting preferential therapy to the holder, typically a authorities official.
Within the 18 FIRs, 5 had been registered in Ferozepur district, 4 in Hoshiarpur district, two every in Ludhiana (Rural), Tarn Taran and Jalandhar (Rural), and one every in Bathinda, Nawanshahr and Moga.
Seven accused have been arrested in these instances. 5 such women who returned from overseas didn’t need any motion.
They embody two from Jalandhar (Rural) and one every from Ferozepur, Moga and Ludhiana (Rural) police districts. Punjab Police have initiated the method for issuing look out circular (LOC) in at the very least 4 instances towards the accused, together with the women who’re allegedly concerned on this human trafficking.
Speaking to The Indian Express, Punjab Bureau of Investigation chief ADGP Lakshmee Kant Yadav stated, “Anti-Human Trafficking Items are being strengthened to place a system of digital monitoring in Punjab to curtail the actions of organised (human) traffickers for ulterior motive.” Punjab Police had been specializing in crypto-analysers in co-ordination with the Protector of Emigrants, the ADGP added.