These units will deal with human trafficking as an

'organised crime' on the 'basket of crimes' concept (involving offences of wrongful restraint, wrongful confinement, selling and buying minors for prostitution, begging, bonded labour, gang rape, subjecting women and children to commercial sexual exploitation etc), Home Department officials had earlier said. As per the government directions, the Additional Director General of Police, CID is acting as the state-level Anti-Human Trafficking nodal officer to supervise the work done by AHTUs and also to co-ordinate the intra-state and inter-state operations to bring traffickers to justice, to rescue victims and to take up measures for the rehabilitation of victims in consultation with Women and Child Welfare Department.