Representative Image. File Photo. A year-old man was arrested for allegedly running a prostitution racket in Thane district's Mira Road area, a police official said on Friday.
According to assistant commissioner of police crime Madan Ballal, Dinesh Parmar, a resident of Dahisar in Mumbai, was held on July 24 after a raid on a hotel in Mira Road by the Anti-Human Trafficking Cell following a tip-off that was verified in a decoy operation, according to the news agency.
Eight women were rescued after a sex racket was busted by the Navi Mumbai Police. An autorickshaw driver was arrested in connection with the racket, reported PTI, citing an official on Saturday. As per the PTI report, Yadav was arrested after police received a tip-off about a gang sending women to various lodges for prostitution after soliciting customers online, said inspector Prithviraj Ghorpade of the anti-human trafficking cell of Navi Mumbai police.
With the help of a decoy customer, they recently nabbed Yadav, who used to ferry the women to hotels, the official said. Based on her information, they rescued eight other women from a room at Shiravane in the Nerul area.
Additionally, police also arrested two men, identified as Vishnu, alias Vikaskumar Janki Yadav 28 , and Indrajit Indradev Prasad 63 from there. The Nagpur police have busted a sex racket operating out of a salon in the city and booked two managers of the establishment, an official told PTI on Saturday.
