Trafficking: Police grill two MPs

Yadav and Rawat were grilled for almost two hours after they presented themselves in response to the notices sent to them last month by the Crime Branch of Delhi Police.

However, other two MPs, Mohammed Tahir Khan of the BSP and BJP’s Ramswaroop Koli, did not turn for questioning despite being summoned by the investigators and the police said it will send notices to them again. Police had earlier summoned them twice.

According to police sources, Yadav and Rawat have admitted to foreign trips but only with their families and not for trafficking people. Yadav said Sunder Lal Yadav stayed in his house but currently he had no interaction with him.

“Even if they deny their involvement, we have got details of their visits and names of persons who traveled with them,” said a source. The police have not given a clean chit to the MPs and said they would be called for questioning again. The police also took down their passport details.

Sunder Lal Yadav, a travel agent, had revealed in a city court last month that Khan and Koli were the central figures in the racket of smuggling people abroad on diplomatic passports of MPs’ family members or forged documents.

During police interrogations, Sunder also named Mitrasen Yadav and Rawat.

Sunder and the two others were nabbed after Babubhai Katara was arrested at the international airport here on April 18 while trying to smuggle a woman and a teenager to Toronto.