{"id":493600,"date":"2023-11-08T19:23:34","date_gmt":"2023-11-08T13:53:34","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/apnlive.com\/?p=493600"},"modified":"2023-11-08T19:26:28","modified_gmt":"2023-11-08T13:56:28","slug":"nia-raids-human-trafficking-2","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/apnlive.com\/india-news\/nia-raids-human-trafficking-2\/","title":{"rendered":"NIA arrests 44 people in human trafficking case after raids across states, UTs"},"content":{"rendered":"\n

In a massive crackdown, the National Investigation Agency (NIA) has arrested 44 people involved in four human trafficking cases. The arrest followed after the federal agency carried out raids across eight states and two union territories on Wednesday morning. <\/p>\n\n\n\n

The National Investigation Agency stated that in a big blow to the human trafficking networks operating across 10 states and Union Territories, NIA in close coordination with the Border Security Force (BSF) and state police force conducted comprehensive operations across multiple states in India and apprehended 44 in four human trafficking cases.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Earlier a spokesperson from the National Investigation Agency (NIA) mentioned that they have detained a person from Myanmar in Jammu. Reports said that the NIA raids were conducted in eight states namely Tripura, Assam, West Bengal, Karnataka, Tamil Nadu, Telangana, Haryana, Rajasthan and two Union Territories, Jammu and Kashmir and Puducherry pertaining to human trafficking cases.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

The federal agency said that after registration of four human trafficking cases at the National Investigation Agency branches in Guwahati, Chennai, Bangalore, Jaipur, the anti-terror agency carried out simultaneous and synchronised raids and searches at 55 locations across Tripura, Assam, West Bengal, Karnataka, Tamil Nadu, Telangana, Haryana, Rajasthan, Union Territory of Jammu and Kashmir as well as Puducherry.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Reports mentioned that during the searches, the NIA recovered digital devices, like mobile phones, SIM cards, and pen drives along with a significant number of identity-related documents, including Aadhar cards and Pan Cards, which are suspected to be forged. In addition, Indian currency notes with an estimated total value exceeding Rs 20 lakhs and foreign currency amounting to 4550 USD were also recovered during the raids. <\/p>\n\n\n\n

Among 44 operatives apprehended and arrested by the investigation agency, 21 are from Tripura, 10 from Karnataka, 5 from Assam, 3 from West Bengal, 2 from Tamil Nadu and 1 each from Puducherry, Telangana and Haryana.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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Indian currency notes with an estimated total value exceeding Rs 20 lakhs and foreign currency amounting to 4550 USD were also recovered during the raids.\u00a0<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":4,"featured_media":493602,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_eb_attr":"","footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_is_tweetstorm":false,"jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true},"categories":[1497,125714],"tags":[1373,23073,155896],"yst_prominent_words":[],"ppma_author":[140543],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"https:\/\/d2r2ijn7njrktv.cloudfront.net\/apnlive\/uploads\/2023\/11\/08192208\/Capture-78-1.jpg","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"authors":[{"term_id":140543,"user_id":4,"is_guest":0,"slug":"apnnewsdesk","display_name":"APN Live","avatar_url":"https:\/\/secure.gravatar.com\/avatar\/478eacb893eda88aa6ed8d99b005bf58?s=96&r=g"}],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/apnlive.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/493600"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/apnlive.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/apnlive.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/apnlive.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/4"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/apnlive.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=493600"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/apnlive.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/493600\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/apnlive.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/493602"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/apnlive.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=493600"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/apnlive.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=493600"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/apnlive.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=493600"},{"taxonomy":"yst_prominent_words","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/apnlive.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/yst_prominent_words?post=493600"},{"taxonomy":"author","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/apnlive.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/ppma_author?post=493600"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}