In a major breakthrough, police on Sunday arrested Binda Kunwar, the main accused in a human trafficking racket, from the Chauri police station area in Bhojpur district. Kunwar’s arrest comes after five other members of the gang, including a woman, were already jailed in connection with a missing minor girl case reported at Danapur police station on May 19.
According to police, the trafficking gang operated across Patna, Ara, Rohtas, and nearby districts, targeting vulnerable young girls at railway stations. They lured victims with false promises of marriage and a better life, only to sell them to traffickers in Madhya Pradesh and Rajasthan.
City SP (West) Bhanu Pratap Singh confirmed that the investigation began with a missing person report but quickly uncovered a wider network. “The arrested female trafficker confessed to selling at least two more minor girls in MP and Rajasthan,” Singh said.
The police are now examining mobile phone records of the arrested traffickers and are in active coordination with law enforcement agencies in Madhya Pradesh and Rajasthan to trace remaining members of the gang.
Efforts to recover the trafficked girls and dismantle the wider interstate trafficking network are ongoing.
