The Hazaribagh Police have busted an international human trafficking racket that lured local youths with false promises of jobs in the United States via the dangerous “donkey route.” Five persons, including the alleged mastermind, Uday Kumar Kushwaha, have been arrested.
Two persons were arrested for allegedly duping gullible people by selling fake airline tickets at cheaper rates, the police said on Thursday.
In a crackdown on drug trafficking along the India-Myanmar border, security forces arrested three Assam residents with heroin worth Rs 1.13 crore in Mizoram's Champhai district.
A sanitary and tiles trader had, on May 24, complained that three youths on a motorcycle had reached his shop and threatened him to hand over Rs 50 crore as extortion money. As he resisted, they opened fire on him.
The arrested have been identified as Shivam Pande, Rohit Kumar Gupta, Jitendar Kumar, Avishek Kumar Gautam and Uma Kanti Yadav. All are residents of Ghazipur.
In the month of June alone, this syndicate has reportedly smuggled around 23 kgs gold through Delhi airport
Two more people, one of them an expert in solving cyber crimes, have been arrested in connection with the call…
