Overview

• On July 27 the Pradhan Nagar Police intercepted a Ranchi-bound bus near Siliguri and rescued 34 women who had been lured by fake job offers.
• Three suspects — Gautam Roy, Petrous Beg and Joyshree Pal — were detained after inconsistencies emerged in their statements.
• Officers seized purported offer letters from garment factories and other recruitment documents that are now undergoing verification.
• The women, predominantly from Jalpaiguri, Alipurduar and Darjeeling tea garden districts, have been safely reunited with their families.
• Investigators are probing an interstate trafficking chain that moves victims through Jharkhand onto trains bound for Tamil Nadu, following the July 22 rescue of 56 women at New Jalpaiguri station.