DEHRADUN: Amid efforts to rescue over 15 males from Uttarakhand kidnapped from Thailand and compelled to work in “rip-off name centres” in Myanmar by alleged Chinese language handlers, at the very least 9 girls from the state have now been kidnapped utilizing the identical modus operandi.
The 9 have been amongst 11 Indian girls kidnapped final month, TOI has learnt solely from households of the boys held within the name centres.They have been lured to Thailand with profitable job gives.
From Thailand, the ladies have been kidnapped and brought to Myanmar’s Myawaddy to forcefully work at cyber-crime hubs. The event comes days after Indian embassy in Myanmar posted on X concerning the launch of 11 Indians from one such centre in that nation on July 19.
Uttarakhand dwelling secretary Shailesh Bagauli advised TOI that the state govt is in contact with MEA officers. He added: “We have apprised MEA concerning the youths of Uttarakhand held captive in Myanmar. So far as the 9 girls are involved, the dept is gathering particulars about them. We’re taking all required steps to rescue them as quickly as attainable.”
A member of the family of an Uttarakhand youth held captive within the neighbouring nation stated, “The ladies are being subjected to brutal torture, together with beating, after being stripped by abductors in entrance of different abductees. It was witnessed by our wards current there who stated that their screams throughout the torture despatched shivers down their backbone.”
He added that the ladies are “at all times susceptible to getting sexually assaulted”. He stated, “Our son whereas talking to us over an prompt messaging utility stated the abductors have been continually threatening that the ladies can be pushed into flesh commerce. Govt ought to step up its efforts to free all Indians held in such centres in Myanmar and different southeast Asian nations like Laos and Cambodia, because the abductors have killed a couple of of the abductees, together with one Bangladeshi nationwide, a couple of days in the past.”
There are at the very least 20 males from totally different districts of Uttarakhand reported to have been kidnapped in Thailand after which taken to Myanmar at gunpoint to work within the rip-off name centres in Could. All of them have been lured to Thailand with job gives within the IT and restaurant sectors, solely to be advised later to defraud unsuspecting folks, lots of them retirees with solely pensions to their identify, from internationally.
