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New Indian Express
15 hours ago
- New Indian Express
IIT graduate among 15 held in Telangana for circulating child porn
Gang targeted tribal women in remote areas During the probe that followed, another victim approached the police, stating she had been sold to a brothel in Madhya Pradesh for Rs 1.10 lakh. She managed to escape and return home last month. Police officials revealed that the gang specifically targeted tribal women from remote mandals such as Kerameri and Tiryani, where several women had been reported missing in recent years. Investigations confirmed that at least some of these women had been trafficked in a similar manner. This is not the first such case in the region. In 2015, two tribal women from Indravelly mandal were reportedly kidnapped and sold in Rajasthan. Asifabad police have registered cases against nine accused and arrested six of them so far. Those arrested include police constable Kameri Haridas (PC-1669), Pariki Pandla Vijaya Laxmi, Sathyamshetty Sujatha, Boire Panchapula, Taduri Usha and Durgam Sudhakar. Three others — Basher Ramesh Goud, Basher Surekha and Soni Jagadeesh — are absconding. Constable Haridas had previously been involved in a similar offence registered under Crime No. 30/2019 at Tiryani police station, Asifabad DSP (in-charge) Ramanujam said. Shielding KIDS 294 FIRs and 110 arrests since the CPU launch in February 2025; only 37 FIRs and 34 arrests recorded in the two years prior
The Hindu
a day ago
- The Hindu
Inter-State human trafficking racket surfaces in Asifabad in Telangana
An inter-State human trafficking racket allegedly involving a suspended police constable has surfaced in Kumram Bheem Asifabad district with the arrest of six accused, including four women and the suspended constable, in two separate cases of human trafficking by the Asifabad police on Wednesday evening. The incident has once again brought into sharp focus the clandestine operation of inter-State gangs targeting poor tribal women in the district. A villager of Asifabad mandal lodged a complaint with the Asifabad police over a week ago seeking to trace his missing daughter. A detailed investigation into the missing person case led to busting of the human trafficking racket. It was another complaint filed by a victim of human trafficking racket who escaped from the clutches of traffickers in Madhya Pradesh and returned to Asifabad recently that uncovered the gang involved in the nefarious crime. Preliminary investigation into the two cases revealed that the accused had sold two women for ₹1.30 lakh and ₹1.10 lakh to some persons in Madhya Pradesh on the pretext of marriage a couple of months ago, sources said. The Asifabad police on Wednesday arrested six of the total nine members of the gang under the SC and ST (Prevention of Atrocities) Act and the provisions of the Immoral Traffic (Prevention) Act. Those arrested include suspended police constable Kameri Haridas, a resident of New Rajampet in Asifabad, Durgam Sudhakar, a labourer of Neelvai village in Mancherial district and four women hailing from the erstwhile Adilabad district. One of the absconding accused hails from Jawra in Madhya Pradesh. A police team has been deputed to Madhya Pradesh to nab the remaining accused.
