Nine victims, including six women from Indonesia, who were involved in flesh trade in two massage parlours at R.S. Puram were rescued by the city police on Saturday and three men who were running the parlours were arrested by the police.
The police sent an informer to one spa on Venkatasamy Road West who alerted the team on confirming that flesh trade was being organised.
The police conducted a raid and rescued the six women from Indonesia.
Police have identified persons running the parlour as R. Sarath (22) from Erimeli in Kottayam, Kerala, and L. Raghukanth (32), of Sowripalayam in Coimbatore.
An officer, who was part of the team, said the spa attracted customers by advertising online and over phone. The police were trying to trace how women from Indonesia were brought all the way to the city.
In another raid at a spa on Ramalingam Road, the police rescued three women (one each from Mumbai, Salem and Tirupur).
The persons running the brothel were identified as A. Arulmani (25), of Salem, and his accomplice Dinesh Kumar.
The accused were booked under sections 4(2)(c) (punishment for living on earnings of prostitution by acting as a tout or pimp on behalf of a prostitute), 3(1)(d) (punishment for running a brothel) 5(1)(b), (c) and (d) (procure, induce or take a person from one place to another to carry out prostitution) and 6 (detaining a person in a place where prostitution is organised) of The Immoral Trafficking (Prevention) Act.
The women, who were rescued were produced before the Judicial Magistrate-I and later taken to a home for temporary shelter.
While Sarath, Raghukanth and Arulmani were arrested and lodged under judicial custody.
Search was on for Dinesh Kumar.
Rs. 95,000 cash was seized from the two parlours.
