Continuing its drive to stop flesh trade in city, the Commissionerate Police on Wednesday arrested six customers and rescued six girls from a residential area of Chintamaniswar under the laxmi Sagar police limits here.
After getting reliable tip-off, a police team led by ACP Akshaya Mishra conducted raid on plot number-1521 at Chintamaniswar where the sex racket was being operated by two brothers, Panchanan Padhi and Sibaprasad Padhi, from Gosani Nuagaon of Brahmapur city.
According to the police, the Padhi brothers were running the sex racket at their rented house, a two-storey building near Canal Bandh. Sibaprasad was staying with his wife and son at the first floor, while the flesh trade was functioning at the ground floor. As the owner of the house Hiralal Shah was not staying in the same house, it was an opportunity for the duo to run the racket in the house, said a senior police officer.
Police said that all six girls belonged to West Bengal and were in the age of 20 to 23 years. The girls were also working in traffic jam beauty parlour which was earlier raided by the police, said an officer.
Padhi brothers apart, the others arrested were customers Dinesh Sharma and Safik Sheikh of Bihar, Sarat Kumar Patra of the city and house owner Shah. The police are interrogating house owner Shah to know whether he was involved in the racket or not.