By Mayukh Goswami

Mangaldai :Police from Mangaldai Police Station in a prompt operation on Thursday evening have managed to nab two youths (married) who are suspected to be the members of a illicit human trafficking racket who allegedly target some young girls in need of money and lure them with fake promises of offering sound financial help . The arrested youths have been identified as Manab Talukdar son of Mohan Talukdar of Ganesh Mandir area of Nalbari town and Jayanta Patgiri son of Utsav Patgiri of village Khatabari near Naalbari town in Nalabari district.

According to the police, one young girl of Mangaldai town area lodged an FIR at Mangaldai Police Station on Wednesday evening that one youth in a mobile phone conversation assured her to offer an amount of Rs. 70,000.00 to meet the medical expenditure for her critically ill mother and for that matter the youth asked the girl to accompany the youth to Nalbari. The youth has also reportedly posted obscene messages in her mobile. Smelling  foul play the girl who lost her father few years back narrated her story to Mangaldai Police and lodged a complaint. Subsequently a team of Mangaldai Police led by Officer in Charge Inspector Niranjan Barua on Thursday evening laid a trap with the help of the complainant girl and apprehended both the youths red handed  at Aulachowka near Mangaldai while they were travelling in a share taxi along with the girl. Meanwhile the Police have registered a case (No. 369/18 under section 419/363/376/511 of Indian Penal Code) and continuing interrogation in this regard. Significantly both the arrested youths have reportedly took the name of an influential self styled ‘Godman’ of Lower Assam in this incident. This incident indicates at what level our so called religious leaders have morally been degraded and how humanity in this modern day society is sold .