Woman held for trafficking, ISI link suspected

Kolkata: Jyoti Rana alias Mehrunnesa alias Nisha Sharma, an alleged human trafficker and suspected ISI agent, arrested at the Netaji Subhas Chandra Bose International Airport, was produced at Barrackpore magistrate court on Monday.Jyoti was arrested with three passports, Pakistani phone numbers and anti-India documents in her possession late on Sunday night, said a senior police officer. She was detained after she arrived from Bangkok.

She has been sent to judicial custody till October 4. Ten days ago, a case of forgery was lodged against Jyoti by the Delhi Police.

A team of Delhi Police will reach the city to take her to Delhi on a transit remand. According to sources, Interpol officials are accompanying the team, and they will interrogate her in Kolkata.

According to a senior Delhi Police officer, one Rahul lodged a complaint against Jyoti with the Uttamnagar police in West Delhi.

 

 

“Jyoti took Rs 1 lakh from Rahul, saying he will be recruited in a company in Greece,” said Sharad Agarwal, Deputy Police Commissioner, West Delhi. Rahul was told that he would reach Greece via Turkey. Accordingly, he reached Malaysia, from where he was supposed to take a flight to Turkey. His passport was original, but the visa he got from the woman for going to Turkey was tampered with, said Agarwal. Since his visa for Turkey was found forged, he was deported to India.

 

 

“We received a complaint against her around 10 days ago,” Agarwal said. “She is an Indian citizen. We are yet to reach a conclusion about her alleged links with Pakistani terror outfits.

Rajiv Kumar, Joint Commissioner of Police, Special Task Force, said: “We are looking into the matter and investigating whether she has any link with the ISI.”

 

 

Jyoti claimed she used to send duped persons to Pakistan from Malaysia, where they were forcibly trained under terrorist outfits. “During interrogation, she claimed that she is a resident of Uttamnagar in West Delhi,” said Rahul Srivastava, Superintendent of Police, North 24-Parganas.

(The Indian Express, 22 September 2009)