New Delhi, September 18, 2026 (Yes Punjab News)
A Special Court for NIA Cases in Hyderabad has convicted and sentenced nine people, including eight Bangladeshi nationals, to life imprisonment in a 2019 human trafficking case involving Bangladeshi women who were trafficked into India and forced into prostitution.
The court, in its order passed on September 17, also imposed a cumulative fine of Rs 1.37 lakh on the nine convicts. It awarded an additional three months of simple imprisonment in case of default in payment of the fine, according to the National Investigation Agency (NIA).
The case relates to a trafficking network that allegedly lured Bangladeshi women into India with promises of lucrative employment and decent wages before forcing them into prostitution.
The original case was registered by the Telangana Police at Pahadi Shareef Police Station in Hyderabad following an operation in September 2019. Three Bangladeshi women were rescued from a brothel operating in Jalpally village, while another woman was rescued from a house in Mahimood Colony, Balapur.
The NIA subsequently took over the investigation and re-registered the case on October 12, 2019, as RC-03/2019/NIA/HYD.
During the investigation, the agency established the involvement of the accused in the trafficking network and filed a chargesheet against 12 accused on October 17, 2020. Three accused — A1, A3 and A7 — were listed as absconding.
The accused were arrested from different locations, including West Bengal and Telangana, during 2019 and 2020.
The nine convicted by the court are Ruhul Amin Dhali (A2), Mohd Yousuf Khan alias Md Imran (A4), Bithi Begum alias Khadija Shaik (A5), Imamul Ghazi alias Mohd Rana Hussain (A6), Mohammed Al Mamun (A8), Sojib Shaik (A9), Suresh Kumar Das alias Sagor (A10), Mohd Abdulla Munshi alias Abdul Sarkar (A11) and Mohd Ayub Shaik (A12).
They were prosecuted under various provisions of the Indian Penal Code, the Foreigners Act, 1946, and the Immoral Traffic (Prevention) Act, 1956.
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