AMN / New Delhi
The Central Bureau of Investigation today busted an international racket of human trafficking, involving 25 school children of the country.
The investigating agency has registered a case against three persons, who are residents of Delhi and Faridabad, and others on the charges of criminal conspiracy, human trafficking, cheating, and forgery.
In February last year, a group of 25 students shown as belonging to a school in Kapurthala (Punjab) were taken to Paris by the accused to participate in the International RUGBY Training Camp on the basis of alleged invitation received from French Federation, Paris.
An FIR was registered on Thursday against Lalit David Dean, Sanjeev Raj and Varun Choudhary, said a Central Bureau of Investigation (CBI) officials, adding “the accused had collected Rs 25 lakh to Rs 30 lakh from the parents and sent the students, aged between 13-18 years, to France on the pretext of rugby training”.
“After the students reached France in February 2016, they were dumped in a gurudwara.”
“The return tickets of trafficked students were cancelled by the agents but two boys somehow managed to come back before their tickets had been cancelled. One boy was even caught by French police after which Interpol was informed and then the CBI started investigation,” the CBI official added.
CBI sources say that most of the trafficked students are from Punjab, Haryana and Delhi.