A Rangamati court on Thursday sent three people to jail after they were arrested on Wednesday night over alleged involvement in trafficking a woman from Bangladesh鈥檚 Chattogram Hill Tracts to China.
Rangamati court inspector Md Shahed said that they were sent to jail at about 3:30pm.
The arrested are Mamiya Chakma, a resident of Khagrachari鈥檚 Dighinala, Sajib Chakma and his sister Jesy Chakma, hailed from Rangamati鈥檚 Barakal upazila.
Mir Abu Touhid, superintendent of police in Rangamati, told 抖阴精品 on Thursday that the Baghaichari police in a drive in the capital鈥檚 Uttara and Basundhara arrested them.
After a 19 year-old girl was rescued from a flat in Uttara on June 26, the police arrested them in a case filed with the Baghaichari police station on June 27, he said.
The arrested Jesy Chakma鈥檚 husband is a Chinese national, he mentioned.
In the preliminary investigation, it has been found that the arrested are involved in trafficking girls and women by using various tactics, the Rangamati SP said, adding, 鈥楾here are two other similar cases in Rangamati, and the investigation is on-going.鈥�
The police rescued a 19-year-old girl, belonging to the Chakma ethnic community, from a flat in Uttara in Dhaka on June 26, seven days after she had gone missing.
The girl went missing from her home in Rangamati鈥檚 Baghaichari area on June 19.
Local community members alleged that Chinese nationals, alongside local racketeers, lure the girls and women from ethnic communities in the CHT with promises of a better life, and sold.