Kochi: CBI today listed seven accused, including a Sub-Inspector of the Immigration wing at the airport here and a civil police officer, in the chargesheet filed in a human trafficking case in which a woman was taken to the Gulf for prostitution in 2012.
The charge sheet was filed by CBI Thiruvananthapuram at the Chief Judicial Magistrate court here. Promising a cleaning job in Dubai and a salary of Rs 25,000, the woman, Mubeena, hailing from Chirayankeezh in Thiruvananthapuram, was sent to the Gulf on June 11, 2012 on a fake passport of a woman from Kottayam.
However, she was taken to Muscat and forced into prostitution. Mubeena, who was earlier the first accused in the case, as she had gone on a fake passport, was made approver, as she was the victim in the prostitution case. The seven accused are Shanta (48), who recruited Mubeena; Lissie Sojan (42), brothel owner in Dubai; Sethulal alias Basheer (40); Shaji (40), Varghese Raphael, Immigration wing Sub Inspector Raju Mathew, and Prashant Kumar, Civil Police officer.
03/05/14 Daily News & Analysis
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The charge sheet was filed by CBI Thiruvananthapuram at the Chief Judicial Magistrate court here. Promising a cleaning job in Dubai and a salary of Rs 25,000, the woman, Mubeena, hailing from Chirayankeezh in Thiruvananthapuram, was sent to the Gulf on June 11, 2012 on a fake passport of a woman from Kottayam.
However, she was taken to Muscat and forced into prostitution. Mubeena, who was earlier the first accused in the case, as she had gone on a fake passport, was made approver, as she was the victim in the prostitution case. The seven accused are Shanta (48), who recruited Mubeena; Lissie Sojan (42), brothel owner in Dubai; Sethulal alias Basheer (40); Shaji (40), Varghese Raphael, Immigration wing Sub Inspector Raju Mathew, and Prashant Kumar, Civil Police officer.
03/05/14 Daily News & Analysis
