The Kendrapada Town police on Friday night arrested two persons, including a CRPF jawan, under the Prevention of Immoral Trafficking Act.
The police also seized a service pistol, four live cartridges, a motorbike, a seal and voter identity card from the CRPF jawan and rescued a girl, said Kendrapada Town PS IIC Pramod Kumar lenka.A police patrolling team conducted a raid and arrested CRPF jawan Babaji Charan Mallick of Gopalpur under the Sadar police station who had brought a 24-year-old girl probably for keeping physical relationship with her in Kalinga Palace by booking a single room for them.
The police rescued the girl and arrested Kalinga Palace manager Panchanan Satapathy for encouraging flesh trade in the hotel, said IIC lenka.Police interrogated Mallick, father of two children and it was ascertained that he is now deployed in a camp at Chhattisgarh. He claimed that the girl was his god-relation sister.
Mallick, Satapathy and the girl were medically examined and the former duo was produced before the SDJM Court here on Saturday. The court rejected the duo’s bail pleas and remanded them to jail custody. The police later handed over the girl to her family.