Overview

• Fifty-six young women from Jalpaiguri, Cooch Behar and Alipurduar districts were intercepted on the Patna-bound Capital Express late on July 22
• Authorities said the victims were promised jobs in Bangalore and traveled without valid tickets, carrying only stamped coach and berth numbers
• Railway Protection Force and Government Railway Police officers, alerted by a tip-off and routine checks, identified the irregular travel group and carried out the rescue
• Two suspects, Jitendra Kumar Paswan and Chandrika Kar, were arrested and remanded as investigators probe links to forced prostitution in Hussul, Tamil Nadu
• All rescued women have been reunited with their families while police expand the investigation to dismantle the wider trafficking network