Piyush SrivastavaLucknow: A former BJP youth wing leader has been arrested for alleged human trafficking, blowing the lid off what appears to have been a thriving racket with Varanasi emerging as a key transit point. But a party leader in Varanasi, who asked not to be named, said Singh was into money-lending in Varanasi's Shivpur area. Prabhat Singh, Varanasi Mahanagar general secretary of the BJP, said it was not clear when Singh was with the BJYM. We are in the process of bringing the four arrested accused to Varanasi and interrogate them," Gyanendra Nath Prasad, superintendent of police, crime branch, Varanasi, said. "They bring women from Nepal and other parts of the country to Varanasi and then send them to different places in India and abroad.

Source: The Telegraph August 01, 2018 21:11 UTC