Flesh trade racket busted, six arrested

February 03, 2018 07:35 pm | Updated 07:35 pm IST - Hyderabad

A prostitution racket being organised from an apartment in West Marredpally was busted by the Commissioner’s Task Force north zone team on Saturday evening. Six persons, including a woman and two clients , were arrested.

A victim from Pune was also rescued during the raid. Police seized ₹ 32,000 and six mobile phones from their possession.

Police said that the organisers were identified as Konda Ramesh Reddy (43), Shamanna Chidananda (48), Mohammed Faizal Khan, and Addapaka Kalyani (45), all residents of Gayathri Arcade Apartment in West Marredpally. The nabbed clients are Likki Rajashekar Reddy (42), a resident of Huda Colony in Saroornagar and Bomireddypally Sanjay (41), a resident of Bank of Baroda Colony, Gandhinagar here.

According to north zone Task Force inspector K. Nageshwar Rao, the organisers engaged sex workers through known sources and would pay them ₹ 30,000 per week and charge ₹ 3,000 to ₹ 40,000 from each client.

The accused were handed over to Marredpally police station for further investigation.

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