Chargesheet filed in GB Road ring

New Delhi, February 20

Delhi Police today filed chargesheet in the GB Road trafficking and prostitution racket unearthed last year, in which the accused have been booked under the stringent MCOCA provisions.

Police claimed that this is the first time provisions of MCOCA (Maharashtra Control of Organised Crime Act) have been invoked against those accused of human trafficking.

The chargesheet, which was filed before additional sessions judge Vimal Kumar Yadav in the Tis Hazari court, names 10 persons as accused.

The main accused husband-wife duo of Afaq Hussain and Saira Begum are in judicial custody.

The proceedings to declare three accused as Proclaimed Offenders have been initiated and 18 properties worth Rs 246 crore have been identified, police said.

"The chargesheet was prepared after six months of exhaustive investigation and contains 3,895 pages," said Ravindra Yadav, Joint Commissioner of Police (Crime).

Investigation is still on and supplementary chargesheets will be filed at the earliest, he said.

More accused persons are to be identified and arrested in this case and more properties to be traced out, he added.

In order to curb ghastly activities of this syndicate of human trafficking and prostitution operating at GB Road, Crime Branch had launched massive action and invoked MCOCA.—PTI