Bengal BJP women's wing leader arrested in Jalpaiguri child-trafficking racket

March 01, 2017 09:31

The CID on Tuesday night arrested BJP women's wing leader Juhi Chowdhury from the Batasia area close to the Indo-Nepal border in North Bengal for her alleged involvement in the Jalpaiguri child trafficking case, reports PTI.

With Chowdhury's arrest, a total of four persons have so far been arrested in connection with the case for their alleged involvement in selling of babies and children across India and also to foreign couples in the last few months from an NGO, Bimala Sishu Griho.

Sonali Mondal, chief adoption officer the NGO, Chandana Chakraborty, chairperson of Bimala Sishu Griho, and Manas Bhowmik, Chandana's brother, had earlier been arrested by a seven-member CID team.

The three were charged with selling at least 17 children, aged between 1 and 14 years, to foreign buyers at high price while falsely claiming that the children were handed over for legal adoption to needy couples after due screening and official procedures.

CID sources said Juhi Chowdhury was being brought to Jalpaiguri for further interrogation and would be produced before the district court today.

West Bengal BJP president Dilip Ghosh has already said the party was looking into the allegations against Chowdhury and would take action if she was found guilty.

The CID blew the lid off a child trafficking racket after conducting raids in homes and nursing homes in Baduria of North 24 Parganas district, in Behala in the southern fringes of Kolkata and some other parts of south Bengal since November last year.

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