The Special Task Force (STF) of Crime Branch on Friday arrested four persons for allegedly working as middlemen of a sex racket.
The accused were identified as Bidyapati Saha alias Ajaya of Mohiuddinnagar in, Bihar, Din Dayal Rao of Kajibazarm in Cuttack Alliuddin Khan of Barahala in Pipili and Sunil Maharana of Mahtab Road in Bhubaneswar.
During the course of investigation into a case, the STF conducted raids at different places of Bhubaneswar and arrested the four accused. The STF also seized two cars and nine mobile phones from their possession. Five women were rescued from the possession of the four persons while they were trying to hand over the victims to customers.
The four persons were associates of the main accused of a sex racket, Ruksar Begum, Preeti Padhi and Keshab Sahoo. In this case as of now a total of nine persons have been arrested and 14 victims were rescued from the clutch of the traffickers.
All the accused were later forwarded to court.