New Delhi

The anti-human trafficking units of Border Security Force (BSF), South Bengal Frontier, deployed on the International Border has rescued 26 women and five minor girls from being trafficked and arrested 33 traffickers in 2021.

On Saturday, the anti-human trafficking unit completed a year of deployment. A statement issued by the BSF said that after the deployment of anti-human trafficking units in the sensitive areas on the border, the cases of human trafficking have reduced.

It is equally important to make the poor and innocent girls aware of the heinous act of human trafficking so that no woman falls prey to these human traffickers.

Traffickers lure poor, innocent minor girls and women by promising good jobs as bar dancers and waitresses. Later, touts push them into prostitution, the BSF said in a statement.

The anti-human trafficking unit, an important part of the BSF South Bengal Frontier, is trying to stop human trafficking by staying on the International Border.

It was deployed on January 15, 2021, to check the heinous crimes of human trafficking in the border areas.

Surjit Singh Guleria, Senior Spokesperson and Deputy Inspector General of Police (DIG), South Bengal Frontier said, "It is often seen that brokers involved in human trafficking bring poor and gullible girls of Bangladesh across the border with the lure of good jobs and money and push them into prostitution."

These days, BSF is taking very strict steps to stop human trafficking on the border. All the anti-human trafficking units under the leadership of the Inspector General of South Bengal Frontier have been deployed on the border, he said.

The main objective of the unit is to nab all the syndicates involved in human trafficking and hand them over to the law and put them behind bars, he added.