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Mumbai: On Wednesday, Maharashtra Police busted a prostitution racket allegedly run by a girl in a hotel in Navi Mumbai. An official gave this information. She was 17-year-old. They also rescued four women involved in the business.
The official from APMC police station said that acting on a tip-off, the anti-human trafficking cell team of the police raided the hotel located in the Vashi area on Tuesday after sending a decoy customer there.
Citing the First Information Report (FIR), he said the accused girl from Malad in neighboring Mumbai used to give some part of the money earned from prostitution to the victims and kept the rest with herself. The officer said that a case has been registered against the accused under sections 370 of the Indian Penal Code (IPC) (buying or disposing of a person as a slave) and provisions of the Immoral Traffic (Prevention) Act-1956.
After the this incident, the police rescued four women, all aged around 20 including one from Nepal and two from Bihar. They have been sent to a rehabilitation home. Give information about this, an official said that the police also seized a mobile phone, a watch and cash collectively worth Rs 84,030, besides bogus currency notes with a face value of more than Rs 1.5 lakh.
