Dehradun police have claimed to bust an inter-State gang involved in running a sex racket in the garb of escort service in the State capital.
A team of Special Task Force (STF) arrested three people from Patel Nagar area of the city on Monday and rescued two women from their clutches.
The Senior Superintendent of Police (SSP), Dehradun Sadanand Date said that regular complaints that some people are running escort services in which deals were being made on internet were received by the department.
The owners of the escort service were trapping unsuspecting girls belonging to different regions of the country and were pushing them into the heinous activity of commercial sexual exploitation.
After verification of the complaints a team led by STF Sub Inspector Ashutosh Rana was constituted by the SSP Dehradun.
After detailed recce and investigation the police team swooped into a house in Patel Nagar and arrested the culprits.
The rescued women are natives of West Bengal. The arrested are Sandeep Kumar and Dinesh Kumar both residents of Sahadara New Delhi and Rajiv Kumar of Thanesar District Kurushetra Haryana.
The police have slapped charges under relevant sections of Prevention of Immoral Trafficking Act (PITA) against the culprits.
On interrogation the trio revealed that they are operating from last three months in the state capital and had links with people from places like Delhi and Chandigarh who used to supply the girls to them.
The gang used to supply girls to the clients in Dehradun Haridwar and Rishikesh and used to charge hefty sums from them.
The STF team was supported by Assistant Superintendent of Police (ASP) Tripti Bhatt in the operation. Apart from SI Rana the team included SI S K Shah, constables Santosh Kumar, DeepaK Chandola, Ved Prakash Bhatt and Arshad