New Delhi: The CBI on Thursday busted an illegal human trafficking racket allegedly run by a Delhi-based politician, who contested 2008 Assembly elections on Samajwadi party ticket here, in collusion with some government officials including a Home Ministry official.
The agency carried out searches at nearly 38 residential and official premises of recruiting agent Waseem Ahmed Gazi, officials, and other people allegedly involved in the racket. During the searches, spread across Delhi, Mumbai, Chandigarh and Hyderabad, the sleuths recovered some incriminating documents.
The CBI has registered three cases against Gazi, three recruitment firms, the then certain officers of Protectorate of Emigrants V B Singh, Nadeem Ahmed, Arup Agrawal and YP Ahuja, official sources said.
Singh, who was the then Protector of Emigrants (PoE) in Delhi, is now posted as Director Labour Ministry, Ahmed who was the then PoE Chandigarh is now section officer at Information and Broadcasting Ministry, Agrawal the then PoE Chandigarh is now PoE Hyderabad and Ahuja the then PoE Delhi is now an under secretary with the Home Ministry, they said.
"The allegations against local Recruiting agent (Gazi) are that he and other Agents in connivance with officials of Protectorate of Emigrants based at Delhi, Mumbai and Chandigarh were obtaining emigration clearance in respect of unskilled workers on the basis of false and forged documents," official spokesperson said.
Sources in the know of investigations say that several documents are required for emigration of unskilled labour which include agreement between the employer and employee, job category, medical insurance, confirmation of a vacancy by the recruitment agent procured from the employer.
The CBI alleged that Gazi managed to procure forged documents and used them in collusion with government officials to send unskilled labours to gulf countries.
Gazi is said to be in business since the late 1970s and has over 20 offices across the country, sources said.
They said Gazi also contested Delhi Assembly bypolls from Okhla constituency in 2008 but lost to Parvez Hashmi of Congress. On a given day, he gets over 200 emigration clearances from the Protectorate of Emigrants here, the sources said.
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