Bengaluru: Detention of human traffickers; 35 Nepali girls rescued
Bengaluru, Dec 12: CCB police arrested four Nepal-based accused on charges of detaining the girls promising by getting them jobs in abroad and trying to trade them illegally.
The arrested have been identified as Kishan Gale (29), Lakshman Gale (29), Rakesh Sharma (38) and Thag Bahadur Thapa (32). It is said that they have formed a syndicate to earn money illegally.
CCB DCP S Girish said that the accused have promised 35 innocent girls that they would get them work in abroad and brought them and kept them illegally in Sudha Lodge at Cotton Pete. They have planned to trade them illegally to foreign countries through agents, he said.
With the help of laptops and printers, they have created fake documents in the name of girls. Two laptops, one printer, 6 mobile phones, 6 fake seals, two passports and other materials were recovered from them. Two other accused Venkateshwar Rao and B Navaraj were at large and the police have been searching for them.
They have links with the foreign agents of human trafficking. Based on the demands of the agents, the accused have been supplying the girls. It was found in the interrogation that they have been using the girls for illegal activities. All the 35 girls rescued here are from Nepal, he said.
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Integrity of electoral process severely compromised, Cong to soon launch movement: CWC
New Delhi (PTI): The Congress Working Committee met here on Friday and adopted a resolution alleging the integrity of the entire electoral process was being severely compromised against which the party would soon launch a movement.
In the resolution of the top body of the Congress, the party said free and fair elections is a Constitutional mandate that was being called into "serious question by the partisan functioning of the Election Commission".
The CWC, which met amid the ongoing Winter Session of Parliament, said the session has been a washout so far because of the Narendra Modi government's "stubborn refusal" to have an immediate discussion on three pressing national issues -- "the recent revelations regarding corruption by a business group, and the violence in Manipur and Uttar Pradesh's Sambhal".
Asked why the Congress Working Committee (CWC) resolution does not name the business group, Congress leader Jairam Ramesh said, "The answer is the Adani group".
"The CWC believes the integrity of the entire electoral process is being severely compromised. Free and fair elections is a Constitutional mandate that is being called into serious question by the partisan functioning of the Election Commission.
"Increasing sections of society are becoming frustrated and deeply apprehensive. The Congress will take these up these public concerns as a national movement," the resolution stated.
Addressing a joint press conference along with Ramesh and Congress spokesperson Pawan Khera, party general secretary, organisation, K C Venugopal said the party discussed the political situation in the country for four-and-half hours and adopted the resolution.
He said the CWC has decided to constitute internal committees to look into electoral performance and organisational matters.
About the Assembly polls results in Maharashtra, Venugopal said the electoral outcome in the state was "beyond normal understanding and it appears to be a clear case of targeted manipulation".
