Team Goemkarponn
PANAJI: The District and Sessions Court in North Goa has rejected the bail pleas of two accused — Talaniti Nulaxi (22), a Kazakhstan national identified as a native of China, and Adithya Ravichandran (22), a resident of Tamil Nadu — who were arrested by the Goa Cyber Crime police in connection with an alleged international human trafficking racket linked to cyber slavery call centres in Southeast Asia.
The court, however, granted conditional bail to a third accused, Rupnarayan Gupta (36) of Mumbai.
All three were apprehended in March from different locations — Bengaluru, Mumbai, and Delhi airport — for their suspected roles in the syndicate. Investigators allege the accused were planning to launch a similar illegal operation in India, with a proposed capacity of over 1,000 workers to carry out cyber fraud.
The case gained prominence after 549 Indians were rescued from forced labour in cyber scam centres in Myanmar earlier this year. Among those rescued was a Goan engineering graduate who was reportedly forced to scam victims in the United States by luring them into fake investment and romance schemes.
Police say Ravichandran was responsible for interviewing potential recruits in Thailand and acted on instructions from senior members of the network. He was allegedly working under Gupta, who ran an unregistered recruitment agency in Mulund West, Mumbai, used to funnel Indian candidates into the international racket.
