City police bust interstate sex rackets involving north eastern, foreign women
crime branch
busted multiple
interstate sex rackets
at different locations, rescuing seven girls, including one from Nepal, three from the north-east, one from Odisha, and another from Uttarakhand.
One of the two rackets, operated by natives of Assam, involved north-eastern girls in sex work, a trend unearthed for the first time.
CP Ravinder Singal has issued instructions to crack down on flesh trade rackets in the city.The team of senior inspector Amol Deshmukh and assistant PI Sachin Bhonde busted the racket involving Assamese residents late on Tuesday evening, in their third attempt within a month, and cash Rs31,000 was seized along with four mobiles. Rizul Ali Ismail Ali and his accomplice Rahanuddin Sahabuddin, natives of Assam, had taken up a posh spa at Shraddhanand Peth and converted it into a flesh trade racket. The actions on the flesh trade were supervised by DCP Crime Rahul Maknikar and ACP Abhijit Patil.Apart from a young woman from Nepal, they involved two more from Arunachal Pradesh, one from Nagaland, and another local resident to cater to customers who paid Rs4,000 for an hour. Sources said the young woman from Nepal had worked in another flesh trade den before shifting to the one operated by Ali and Sahabuddin from February.The north-eastern women rescued during the raid said they were brought to the city with promise of jobs but pushed into flesh trade. Mainly from economically weak families, the north-eastern young women have been sent to shelter homes. The families of the rescued girls will be informed and they will be released only to the kin through a court order, said an official. The case was handed over to the Bajaj Nagar police station. "The women offered massages followed by other sexual activities, but access was only given to some known customers," said an insider, adding that north-eastern women are most preferred in the sex trade as they are known to be bolder and flamboyant.In the second raid on Wednesday, the social service unit of the crime branch under senior inspector Omprakash Sontakke busted a sex racket at Sai Baba Nagar on Kharbi Road, rescuing women from Odisha and Uttarakhand during the action. Nutan Kalsarpe was arrested from the spot while her husband, Sachin, has gone underground. The two had previous crime records against them, including one related to narcotics. Kalsarpe was handed over to Wathoda police station. The cops also seized condoms, cash Rs3,000, and other materials from the spot. The two rescued women were also sent to the shelter home.
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