Sex rackets busted: Four arrested by Rachakonda police

Police raided a house in Saheb Nagar of Vanasthalipuram and arrested R Shankar, P Sriramulu, both organisers and P Sandeep, a customer

Hyderabad: The Anti-Human Trafficking Unit of Rachakonda police busted two sex rackets at Vanasthalipuram and Kushaiguda and rescued two women apart from arresting four persons on Tuesday. Police raided a house in Saheb Nagar of Vanasthalipuram and arrested R Shankar, P Sriramulu, both organisers and P Sandeep, a customer.

Later, the house of P Ranga Srinivas who was allegedly supplying women for prostitution was raided and was arrested. A woman too was rescued.

Police said Shankar took a house for rent in Sainikpuri and started running a brothel by procuring women from Mosiyar Shaik from Mumbai. While they collected Rs 7,000 per customer for a day, they paid Rs 500 to the victims per customer.

In another case, the Malkajgiri SOT on Wednesday raided a brothel at Chengicherla in Medipally and arrested three persons including a woman on charges of human trafficking apart from rescuing three women. The arrested persons were A Jyothi (35), an organiser who also runs a saree business at her house in Chengicherla of Medipally, J Pradeep and MAnil, both customers.

Police said Jyothi was running a brothel from the same premises by procuring and exploiting women from poor families.

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