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NIA Court Awards Life Imprisonment to Nine, Including Eight Bangladeshis in Human Trafficking Case
The court also imposed a total fine of Rs 1,37,000 after finding the group guilty of trafficking Bangladeshi women into India for prostitution.
- A special National Investigation Agency court in Hyderabad sentenced nine individuals to life imprisonment on Thursday, September 17, 2026, for human trafficking, including eight Bangladeshi nationals and one Indian citizen.
- Traffickers lured vulnerable Bangladeshis to India with false promises of lucrative employment and wages, then forced victims into prostitution until authorities rescued women from multiple locations in 2019.
- The court prosecuted the accused under the Indian Penal Code , the Foreigners Act, and the Immoral Traffic Act, imposing a total fine of ₹1.37 lakh with three months' imprisonment for non-payment.
- Convicts include Ruhul Amin Dhali, Mohd Yousuf Khan, Bithi Begum, Imamul Ghazi, Mohammed Al Mamun, Sojib Shaik, Suresh Kumar Das, Mohd Abdulla Munshi, and Mohd Ayub Shaik, arrested across West Bengal and Telangana during 2019 and 2020.
- This ruling concludes a seven-year-old investigation originally registered by Telangana Police in 2019; the NIA took over on October 12, 2019, filing a chargesheet in 2020 to bring the trafficking network to justice.
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In a major success in a seven-year-old case registered in 2019, the National Investigation Agency (NIA) has secured life imprisonment for nine accused, including eight Bangladeshi nationals, linked to a syndicate of human trafficking.
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A special NIA court in Hyderabad sentenced nine convicts, including eight Bangladeshi nationals, to life imprisonment in a 2019 human trafficking case. According to the investigation, the gang lured women to India with promises of jobs and good earnings and later forced them into prostitution.
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