DUBAI, December12 2011: A man and a woman, both Indians, were charged with human trafficking on Sunday in the Court of First Instance.The two, aged 56 and 37, are believed to have forced four women, including 15 and 16-year-old Bangladeshi and Pakistani teens, into prostitution after luring them from their countries with maids’ jobs. They also sexually exploited the women and held them up in their apartment in Muraqqabat. The alleged victims, also including two Indians aged 20 and 21, were received by the duo at the Sharjah International Airport.From there they were taken to the duo’s place in Muraqqabat after being stripped off their passports and visas. The victims were forced into having sex with men for money. They were told they had to pay back their visa costs. The police raided the defendants’ flat on June 19 and arrested them and freed the women who were held up against their will.Some of the women had been forced to work for the two accused for five and seven months before the oldest of them could escape and seek police help.
