Assam woman murdered in West Bengal after fake job promise

Watch how a simple promise of work ended in tragedy for Puja Das, exposing the risks young women face in Assam.

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00:00This 23-year-old woman from Assam's Guwahati was lured with promises of work

00:04only to be murdered allegedly in West Bengal.

00:06Police said Pooja Das was reported missing on August 23 after leaving the city with Mahesh

00:11Paswan, who had promised her a job in West Bengal.

00:14Days later, Pooja's body was found mutilated.

00:17Her limbs dismembered.

00:18Police call it a case of extreme violence.

00:21Paswan is under arrest, but investigators suspect links to trafficking networks

00:25that lure people from across state with false promises of work.

00:28And Assam knows this crisis too well.

00:30According to the NCRB 2021 report, Assam recorded 203 human trafficking cases,

00:36ranking third in the country behind Telangana with 347 cases and Maharashtra with 320.

00:41The reasons run deep.

00:42Pouty, floods, unemployment, migration and porous borders.

00:46Tea gardens are especially vulnerable.

00:48The state has set up anti-human trafficking units and a new policy,

00:52but many cases go unreported.

00:54Pooja's death brings the issue back into sharp focus.

00:56Why young women in Assam are still falling into such deadly traps?