Nagpur : The special zonal squad of Harssh Poddar on Tuesday busted the first ‘mobile’ sex racket in the city by arresting two alleged pimps operating in a tourist car. A 21-year-old woman, student of second year in arts stream, was rescued during the operation at a brick kiln at Deepak Nagar Jaripatka on the outskirts of the city.
The arrest of Yogesh Sahu and Rahul Gaute for the sex trade in car also brought to fore the new trend of pimps preferring vehicles rather than apartments to avoid police raids. Though the racket was busted in the northern fringes of the city, it’sreliably learnt that such rackets are common in West Nagpur and elsewhere.
Young women, especially high school and college-going ones, are drawn into these rackets for fast money. A senior police official said young women are getting lured into the flesh trade for quick cash to sponsor addictions, costly mobile branded clothes and accessories. In the latest case, the special squad managed to zero down upon Sahu and Gaute following an input.
The squad, led by PI Dilip Landge, API Omprakash Sontakke and PSI Jeetendra Thakur,had sent a decoy customer to lay the trap. The undercover customer had to hand over cash Rs1,000 to get access to the survivor, who was in the car. The woman rescued has claimed that she had accompanied the two in a car to many places in the city to cater to clients. Sources in the police said the racketeers, who had been active in the trade for last few months, would push back the front passenger seat to make a bed for the customer.
The two pimps would wait outside keeping vigil. The pimps would park the car at desolate places to ensure no one objected to the goings on. When they were nabbed, Sahu and Gaute had parked the car behind a stack of bricks at a kiln at Deepak Nagar. This had been the spot chosen by the two for the last few days. Police also found several used condoms discarded near the place.
PI Landge of Jaripatka police station, where the offence was registered, said he had sought four days custody but the court sent the two to magisterial custody. “Sahu claimed he had hired the car for a month but we need to ascertain the ownership of the vehicle,” he said.
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