Ex-National Athlete, One of 4 Girls Arrested in Raipur Sex Racket
Eight people, including a teenage bar girl from Mumbai was arrested as police busted a call girl racket operating in a school in Raipur.
According to reports, among four girls found in the brothel was a former national athlete as claimed by her.
Police sources said that Nisha Shetty, caught on the scene, claims to have represented Assam in national level athletic events in long jump, high jump and even volleyball during 1994-95. For she was an unemployed widowed single mother, Nisha reasoned, she was forced to join the flesh trade.
After a tip-off that a sex racket was operative in a rented flat of the three-storey school building located in the posh Sector-2 area of Devendranagar, police put up a decoy yesterday and subsequently conducted a raid to unearth the racket.
The police team, led by Additional Superintendent of Police S M Singh, arrested altogether 8 people, including kingpin of the sex racket Rajesh Namdev and four girls.
Polices sources said that two of the teenaged girls were reportedly brought to the city from Mumbai and Kolkata.
A resident of Mana, Namdev, had taken the flat on rent some three months ago and converted it into a brothel.
Police, which arrested the accused under the Prevention of Immoral Trafficking Act, also seized a car, five mobile phones, Rs 15,000 cash and contraceptives, following the raid.
Devendranagar police said a few more pimps involved in this flesh trade racket were yet to be arrested.
