CID arrests ‘ringleader of trafficking gang’
Criminal Investigation Department (CID) claimed to have arrested ringleader of a human trafficking gang on charges of raping a girl and attempting to traffic her to India last year.
A team of CID arrested Mohemunuzzaman, also known by the names Pratik Khandaker and Babu, from Chattogram on Monday, Sheikh Md Rezaul Haider, an additional deputy inspector general of CID, told reporters at a press briefing at its headquarters yesterday. He is also accused in two other cases.
Earlier, three other accused -- Jannatul alias Jerin, Rifat and Jakia -- were arrested and the 14-year-old girl was rescued from the Benapole border area in Jashore.
CID officials said Mohemunuzzaman and Jerin, identifying themselves as a couple, sublet in the flat where the girl used to live with her family in Dhaka's Sabujbagh area, and developed a good relation with them.
The couple then lured the girl's mother with a high salaried job for her in Malaysia. In November last year, they took the girl to Benapole and raped her. They attempted to traffic her to India but police on information rescued her. Mohemunuzzaman was on the run since the incident. The family later filed a case with Sabujbagh Police Station.
CID officials said Mohemunuzzaman and Jerin once worked at a hotel in Malaysia and got involved in the human trafficking gang when they returned home five years back.
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