Mumbai: Man held for running prostitution racket in Mira Road

A 56yearold man was arrested for allegedly running a prostitution racket in Thane districts Mira Road area a police official said on FridayAccording to assistant commissioner of police crime Madan Ballal Dinesh Parmar a resident of Dahisar in Mumbai was held on July 24 after a raid on a hotel in Mira Road by the AntiHuman Trafficking Cell following a tipoff that was verified in a decoy operation according to the news agencyTwo women who were rescued during the raid have been sent to a shelter home Ballal said according to PTIParmar was reportedly booked under Section 143 3 of Bharatiya Nyay Sanhita BNS and the Immoral Traffic Prevention Act for trafficking and other offences the ACP saidSex racket busted in Navi Mumbai eight women rescuedEight women were rescued after a sex racket was busted by the Navi Mumbai Police An autorickshaw driver was arrested in connection with the racket reported PTI citing an official on SaturdayThe auto driver was identified as Pradeep YadavAs per the PTI report Yadav was arrested after police received a tipoff about a gang sending women to various lodges for prostitution after soliciting customers online said inspector Prithviraj Ghorpade of the antihuman trafficking cell of Navi Mumbai policeWith the help of a decoy customer they recently nabbed Yadav who used to ferry the women to hotels the official saidUpon questioning the auto driver one woman was rescued from a hotel room by the policeBased on her information they rescued eight other women from a room at Shiravane in the Nerul areaAdditionally police also arrested two men identified as Vishnu alias Vikaskumar Janki Yadav 28 and Indrajit Indradev Prasad 63 from thereThe suspected kingpin of the racket Shambu Upadhyaya is at large the official said reported PTI An FIR has been registered under the Bharatiya Nyaya Sanhita BNS at Turbhe police stationSex racket busted at salon in Nagpur two bookedThe Nagpur police have busted a sex racket operating out of a salon in the city and booked two managers of the establishment an official told PTI on SaturdayAs per the PTI report the social security branch SSB of the crime branch raided a salon on West High Court Road on Friday night and found a prostitution racket operating out of the premises the official saidThe police nabbed Akanksha alias Ritika alias Kumud Hiralal Meshram 26 and Sophia alias Neetu Zakir Sekh 30 who were managing the establishment he saidThe police also reportedly rescued three women who were forced into prostitution he saidAccording to the news agency report a case has been registered against the accused under the Prevention of Immoral Trafficking Act PITA at Sitabuldi police station the official saidWith inputs from PTI