when making art becomes trafficking

A perfect example of how false is the image of the innocent artist. The persons that were trafficking were professional stage artists, they really had a performance to do in Budapest:

MUMBAI: In yet another case of human trafficking, 18 passengers were arrested at Mumbai airport for trying to board a flight and travel to Budapest illegally on Saturday afternoon. The passengers, all of whom hail from Kerala, were intercepted at the immigration counter before they could board a Thai Airways' Mumbai-Istanbul-Budapest flight. They are currently in police custody. Last week, two Air India staffers were arrested for human trafficking. "These passengers were travelling on genuine visas, which were obtained from the Hungarian consulate in New Delhi,'' said a police official. "However, they had furnished incorrect documents claiming that they were stage artistes going to perform in Budapest,'' he added. This is the second time in the past five months that such a large number of passengers, travelling together on forged documents, have been arrested at the airport. Officials said eight passengers were stage artistes and acting as carriers for the 10 others. There were six women in the group. "The rest, who were feigning to be artistes, said they wanted to procure jobs in Budapest,'' senior inspector Dilip Patil said. "The artistes were to perform on March 31,'' he added.

via The Times of India