Tumakuru: police arrest two women for human trafficking

Team Udayavani, Jan 17, 2018, 10:26 AM IST

Tumakuru: Tumakuru police have busted a human trafficking racket and arrested two women involved in the racket. The Tumakuru police were hinted by the Delhi police about the racket where in women from Karnataka were transported.

The Anti-Prostitute cell of Delhi police had rescued a woman from Karnataka on 17^th December 2017. The woman had escaped from her captors and provided information to the police about the racket in Tumakuru. The woman wanted to return back to Tumakuru to her home. Based on her request, the Delhi police spoke to the Superintendent of Police of Tumakuru district.

The woman was then brought home safely by a team led by Tumakuru Rural Circle Inspector. When she was questioned on the racket, she revealed names of two women, Bhagyamma and Bhagya who were running the prostitution cum human trafficking racket in the district.

The woman who was saved told the police that Bhagyamma had promised her a job and took her to Hindupur in Andhra Pradesh. There she was handed to a person named Noor Jaan who contacted a prostitution racket kingpin in Delhi and sent her there. She was then sold to a lady who runs a prostitution racket near the railway station in Delhi.

The Tumakuru police have arrested Bhagyamma in Arasur, Kalaburagi; Bhagya in Koratagere and Noor Jaan in Kadari village in Andhra Pradesh. Further investigation is still in progress.