Trafficking racket gets murkier - from Delhi to Andhra

New Delhi: A flourishing human trafficking racket involving India's political class is becoming murkier as the police disclosed Wednesday that at least 12 people had been smuggled out on diplomatic passports and more politicians were linked to the scandal.
The Delhi Police, which is at the heart of the investigation sparked by the April 18 arrest of Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP) MP Babubhai Katara, said it had discovered that a dozen people appear to have flown out of India using passports of politicians' families to the US and Britain over the past three years.
Six of them, a police officer told IANS, had travelled with Katara. He said the US embassy and the high commissions of Britain and Canada had provided the information to the external affairs ministry.
Katara is being interrogated every day at the Crime Branch office but officials are tightlipped.
The Delhi Police have summoned the other BJP and BSP MPs but they are yet to present themselves.
25/04/07 IANS/Andhra Cafe

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