Nodi coordinated traffickers in India, Malaysia, UAE

Nodi Akter, one of the seven members of a transnational human trafficking racket whom police arrested last night, used to work as a coordinator with traffickers in India, Malaysia and UAE.

Police revealed this information, along with detailed identities of six other arrestees.

Nodi is known by at least 10 different names to the victims she trafficked, according to a press release issued in this regard.

Her name is Jaya AktarJannat on Indian Adhar card, many also know her as Eti in the neighbouring country. Her passport name is Noorjahan, while she is known as Jolly in Satkhira border area, and Preety in Jashore border area. In Dubai she is known as Laila, the press release adds.

Besides Bangla, she can speak Hindi, Arabic, Tamil, Malay and English.

She had close ties with the Bangladeshi traffickers arrested by Bengaluru police in India on May 27 in connection with the video clip of a 22-year-old woman being tortured and sexually assaulted, the release also mentions.

Nodi (28), who hails from Munshiganj, studied till class five. She got married to a "top criminal" Rajib Hossain in 2005. In 2015, Nodi's husband died in a "crossfire", according to the press release.

The other arrestees are: Md Al Amin Hosen (28), Md Saiful Islam (28), Palak Mandal (26), Binash Sikdar (33), Md Tarikul Islam (26), and Md Amirul Islam (30).

A team of Hatirjheel Police arrested the seven while conducting raids in border areas in Narail and Jashore districts on Monday.

A Dhaka court on Tuesday placed all seven arrestees on four-day remand each in connection with a case filed for trafficking women to India and later forcing them into sex work.

Dhaka Metropolitan Magistrate Mahmuda Akter passed the order after Investigation Officer Mohammad Mohiuddin Faruk, an inspector of Hatirjheel Police Station, produced them before the court with a ten-day remand prayer in the case, court sources said.