Courtesy: Daily News and Analysis
New Delhi, Apr 20: It was not for the first time that BJP MP Babubhai Katara was taking a woman along on a false passport on an international flight when he was caught by alert Air India security personnel at the Indira Gandhi International Airport on Wednesday morning.
The police are now probing whether the rut goes much deeper and whether there is an organised racket of human trafficking.
There are, at least, two other instances in the past two years where Katara is said to have been involved in human trafficking using diplomatic passport of his wife and a regular passport of his son. DCP Neeraj Thakur said, “He had used his wife’s passport to illegally take women to England and USA in the past two years.”
The officer added that Katara was involved in a bigger human trafficking racket and few more travel agents could soon be arrested in relation to the cases.
“We have come across names of a few more travel agents who were involved in trafficking and different police teams have been sent to Gujarat, Hyderabad and Punjab to arrest these traffickers.”
Having suspended him from the party and membership, the BJP is all set to serve him a show cause notice, which is necessary as per its requirements of its constitution, to expel him.