A rather murky business

New Delhi: The recent arrest of Bharatiya Janata Party Member of Parliament Babubhai Katara for his alleged involvement in a human trafficking racket has exposed the deep nexus between traffickers and politicians. Already six persons have been arrested and four Members of Parliament are under the police scanner. It is common knowledge that human trafficking is an age-old practice. Poor people from developing countries migrate to developed countries in search of a better life.
On several occasions the police have found that human trafficking rackets are run in connivance with airlines, passport office staffers and even their own men. In a case reported about two years ago, the Indira Gandhi International Airport police discovered that an assistant sub-inspector with the Special Branch had helped in arranging about 100 passports under different names on a particular East Delhi address. The passports were allegedly issued in the names of Afghan nationals who later fled the country. In another case, the police found that a passport official had arranged over a dozen passports issued on a particular name.
28/04/07 The Hindu

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Categories: Foreign Apr 2007, General Aviation Apr 2007