The social service branch personnel of the Mumbai police have rescued three small-time television actresses, including a minor girl, after blowing the lid off a sex racket operating out of a three-star hotel at Andheri in north Mumbai.
Acting on a tip-off that lady models were available for pleasure at as high cost as Rs 1 lakh per model for an outing, the police raided three-star Dragonfly Hotel at Andheri (east) on late on Thursday, arrested a 29-year-old woman behind the prostitutes’ racket and rescued three small-time actresses.
Of the rescued actresses, one is minor girl. But, all three of them are working in television and web serials. One of them has worked in Marathi television serial, while another has worked in ‘Savdhan India’ serial.
Identifying the mistress behind the sex racket as one Priya Sharma, the police said that she operated the alleged sex racket under the banner of her tours and travel firm M/s Vinayak Vacation and Holidays.
“We used some of our constables as decoy. Posing themselves as customers, they established contact with the mistress and called her to the hotel to strike a deal.
She came to the hotel with three actresses. At the hotel, our team arrested accused mistress and rescued three actresses, including a minor girl,” a senior police officer said.
Investigations have revealed that three young brokers from New Delhi — as Aavesh, Vinay and Kuldeep Jani — have been helping the accused mistress luring in young and attractive girls to the alleged sex racket. They have been named as absconding accused in the case.
The accused mistress Priya Sharma and three absconding accused have been booked under the Immoral Traffic (Prevention) Act and relevant sections of the IPC.