Bajnati Bai was arrested for allegedly selling five tribal women from Lalpur and Pantha village panchayats under Bango police station limits in Delhi in December last year, said Amresh Mishra, Korba Superintendent of Police.
However, Rajesh Kumar, the director of a Delhi-based placement agency B R Service Centre and another woman who played the role of a mediator in this case were still at large.
According to Mishra, Bajnati Bai took women namely Amrita Bai, Savitri Bai, Anita Bai, Premkumari and a minor, along with her to Ranchi, promising them employment at Ambikapur in December, 2013.
In Ranchi, she sold them to another trafficker called Basanti for Rs 5,000 each.
After keeping the women at her residence for eight says, Basanti took them to Delhi and sold them to Rajesh Kumar, the director of the placement agency in the Punjabi Bagh area in Delhi.
Acting on several clues, the police reached Delhi and found all the five women in the Punjabi Bagh area after which they were brought to Korba, he said.
Based on their statements, a case has been registered against Bajnati, Basanti and Rajesh Kumar, he said. Bajnati was arrested from her native place in
Katghora, he said, while efforts were on to nab Basanti and Rajesh, who are absconding.
