Meerut, April 4 -- As probe picks up into the Dhan Varsha (wealth rain) gang, tales of abuse and sexual exploitation of young women have come to the fore.

The targeted women had to be preferably over 18, unmarried, taller than 5 feet 5 inches, and free of scars, burns, tattoos, surgical history, or animal bites- deemed to possess 'special qualities' for wealth-generating rituals.

In this sequence, the police arrested a librarian at a private university from Mathura, Dashrath Singh Sisodia, the 15th accused of the human trafficking racket, on Friday.

The gang employed a coded language to orchestrate their crimes: Article Code: Victims, dehumanised as "tomato," "TT," "article," or "item," were selected for their perceived mystical attrib...