7 arrested, sex racket busted in Noida; 2 girls rescued
Darpan News Desk IANS, 03 Mar, 2023 01:04 PM
Noida, March 3 (IANS) The Kotwali Sector 39 police along with the Anti-Human Tracking Unit of Noida police arrested 7 people including a woman in connection with a flesh trade being run from a rented house in Noida's Salarpur village. Two girls have been rescued from their captivity.
The officials raided the place on Thursday night.
The kingpin, Mala Devi, had been running the racket along with her associate, who has been identified as Manpreet from a rented accommodation in Salarpur.
DCP Noida Zone, Harish Chandra said that upon receiving information, the officials sent their own agent to pose as a customer in front of the duo.
After receiving the agent's signal, they raided the place and Devi and Manpreet along with five customers were detained.
The arrested customers have been identified as Anil, Rajan, Sagir, Abhishek and Harish.
The house belongs to one Neeraj Bhati.
Police recovered six mobile phones, Rs 2,100 in cash and objectionable items from their possession.
The official added that Devi and Manpreet had rented two rooms at Bhati's place some days back and had started the business here.
The police have registered a case against the accused persons under the Immoral Traffic (Prevention) Act, 1956 and is gathering information about the others involved.
The accused were identified as Mohd Sahil, 28, Mohd Waseem, 18, Mohd Yusuf, 29, and Ashish Chawla, 43. Deputy Commissioner of Police, South, Benita Mary Jaiker said that the matter came to notice when a PCR call was received on July 18, reporting that a courier package having 80 knives was found dropped in C.R. Park area.
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Congress leader Rahul Gandhi was released by the Delhi Police almost over six hours after he was detained during his party's march from Parliament to Rashtrapati Bhawan, officials said Tuesday. "They have been released," Deputy Commissioner of Police (New Delhi) Amrutha Gugolth said while responding to a query about the Congress party leaders' detention.
Anmol Rattan Sidhu resigned from his post earlier in the day. In a resignation letter to Chief Minister Mann, Sidhu said he was resigning from the post owing to personal reasons. He was appointed to the post in March this year.
The DGP said the arrested persons had also tried to kill three associates -- Dagar, Fateh Nagar, and Kaunsal Chaudhary -- of Gangster Sukha Duneke when the police had brought them on production warrant in connection with kabbadi player Sandeep Nangal Ambia murder case.
The officials alleged that the said man instead of showing the licences as demanded, started shouting at the cops and also abused them. As the policemen tried to further persuade the owner, he and his nine staffers started pushing them out of the bar.
