New Delhi, July 23 (UNI) A major prostitution racket in the national capital, run by a gang of human traffickers, has been busted by the Delhi Police’s Crime Branch, and 10 foreign women were rescued from their clutches, police said on Saturday. The police have also arrested five people involved in the racket and they were identified as Mohd Arup (31), Chande Sahini alias Raju (30), Ali Sher Tilladaev (48), and Turkmen nationals Aziza Jumayeva and Meredob Ahmed. Deputy Commissioner of Police, Crime Branch, Vichitra Veer Singh said the accused people used to lure foreign women to work as sex workers and brought them from various regions of Uzbekistan to In- dia and got them involved in prostitution. “On the receipt of secret information,a police constable was sent as decoy customer and another personnel was deputed as shadow witness and contact was made with agents by hiding the actual identity,” he said.
He said that on finalization of the deal on an agreed sum, the decoy customer was sent to an address in Malviya Nagar where agents, Arup and Sahni, produced 10 foreign women to choose from for paid sex. Subsequently, the police conducted a raid and both the agents were nabbed from the spot. “All the foreigners were asked to produce their valid visa and passport for a stay in India, but they failed to produce any,” the official said.
