Navi Mumbai: Sex racket busted by cops, autorickshaw driver held

An autorickshaw driver was arrested on Friday by the Navi Mumbai polices AntiHuman Trafficking Cell for alleged involvement in a sex racket an official told PTIAccording to the PTI report a lodge was raided on Thursday night acting on a tipoff that was confirmed by a decoyThe accused identified as Pradeep Yadav was reportedly arrested when he arrived with a victim in his threewheeler the APMC police station official saidAccording to the official the woman was rescued while a hunt was on for more people involved in the racket as reported by the news agencyThane sex racket bustPolice arrested a Yemeni man for allegedly helping four Thai women get fake Aadhaar and PAN cards in connection with operating a sex racket the police said on WednesdayThe police had taken one of the four women into custody for allegedly running a prostitution racket in Thane district of Maharashtra an official said on Wednesday reported PTIThe Thane police arrested Bagdi Abdullah Mughed Saad 42 from Pune on Tuesday he saidAfter getting a tipoff a team of the AntiHuman Trafficking Cell AHTC of the Thane police raided a hotel last week and arrested a 44yearold Thai woman for allegedly running a sex racket Three more Thai women were rescued from there police told PTIDuring the investigation police reportedly learned that Saad had helped the four women get fake Aadhaar and PAN cards With the help of technical leads they tracked him down to Pune and took him into custody said Deputy Commissioner of Police Crime Shivraj Patil on Wednesday reported PTIAs per the news agency report Saad and the arrested Thai woman were living in India despite the expiry of their passports and visas he said He added that police have now invoked the Foreigners National Act and upgraded the original FIRSex 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