Aishbagh police have busted a sex racket in Pushpa Nagar area on Wednesday and arrested five women and four youths from an apartment.
According to the police acting on a tip off, in a joint effort by Mahila police and Aishbagh police house no A/125 was raided and young women and men were found in compromising position.
Police said that the main accused, who used to run the racket, hails from Maharahstra and was involved in the illegal business for the past one year.
Station House Officer of Aishbagh police station Upmanyu Saxena has told that kingpin of the nexus is a 21-year-old woman who used to call girls from Maharashtra and other States. Of the nabbed girls, two girls are from Kolkata, one is from Maharashtra and two are from Bhopal. The nabbed youths have been identified as Anoop Verma, Sandeep, Bunty alias Anwar, Satish and Sandeep.
The action was taken after receiving several complaints from the locals. Earlier few complaints were made by the neighbours and locals but after receiving concrete information, the raid was conducted.
A case under Prevention of Immoral Trafficking Act has been registered. The main accused has been nabbed earlier for her involvement in immoral trafficking and was arrested in Misrod and Piplani areas. The accused used to bring women from different states for a specific period of time and after that time they used to return to their places.
This is second case of Immoral Trafficking reported this year. In the month of January 2014 the first case was reported in Kolar area.