BJP MP had smuggled people abroad earlier: police

Delhi: Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP) MP Babubhai Katara, who was arrested a day earlier at the airport when trying to smuggle out a woman and a teenager to Canada, had successfully smuggled people out of the country on two earlier occasions, the police revealed Thursday.
'Our initial investigations indicate that Katara had used a similar modus operandi to smuggle some people to London and the US in the last two years. We are trying to ascertain the financial transactions involved in these cases,' said Neeraj Thakur, Deputy Commissioner of Police, (Crime). 'On all these visits, Katara travelled on a tourist visa. We are trying to find out how long these visits lasted and the persons who accompanied him.'

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More MPs in human trafficking scam?
In more murky developments in the Gujarat
BJP MP Babubhai Katara case, sources in the
Delhi Police have said that the Regional
Passport Office has warned of other MPs
involved in human trafficking. Regional
Passport Office has warned the Lok Sabha
Speaker Somnath Chatterjee about MPs
misusing their wives’ diplomatic passports.
Sources say police suspect other MPs of being
involved in a possible human trafficking racket.
19/04/07 Times Now.tv
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Also being investigated is the role of immigration officials and if there was any collusion to facilitate Katara's foreign jaunts, he said.
Thakur also pointed out that two travel agencies based in Punjab and Gujarat were under the scanner and police teams had fanned out to nab the agents who had meticulously planned the travel arrangements. A police team has also been sent to Hyderabad to probe possible links of the human trafficking racket.
19/04/07 India eNews.com

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