CBI appropriate agency to investigate trafficking of women, says High court

While hearing a PIL on trafficking of women, the Calcutta High Court on 23 July said the Central Bureau of Investigation (CBI) is an appropriate agency to conduct a probe in this regard, considering that it involves international racket.

The Division Bench comprising Chief Justice J N Patel and Justice Bhaskar Bhattacharjee also asked the CBI to appear in the case.

This comes after Advocate General Bolai Roy, who appearing on behalf of the state government, told the court that a probe conducted by the CID found that an inter-state as well as international rackets were involved in trafficking of women, and consequently the state police took help from the Interpol.

Acting on a writ petition filed by one Johara Bibi, a resident of South 24-Parganas who had alleged that the police did not take proper action to trace her missing minor daughter in May 2009, the High Court on June 19, 2010 had directed the state police to file a report on women trafficking and submit it within four weeks.

After the CID submitted its report to a single-member Bench, Justice Sanjib Banerjee referred the case to a larger Bench saying that the case should be taken up as a PIL. Source

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