BHOPAL
: After the unravel honetrap case in the state, sex rackets are being busted in the city every day.
On Thursday, Nishatpura police busted a major sex racket being operated in Rajvansh Colony — the third in three days . Twelve persons — seven women and five men, including the kingpin — were arrested. Among the accused are four clients, said police.
The kingpin, Yogesh Haswani, has been nabbed earlier as well in a prostitution case. To avoid being caught, he would change his location and rented houses in different areas to run the racket. Police said, Haswani had contacts with many influential persons, including businessmen and professionals. He would share the photographs of women over WhatsApp and then “supply” them. CSP (Nishatpura) Lokesh Sinha said, police received a tip-off about suspicious activity taking place in a rented house in Rajvansha Colony. Police formed a team and sent a constable to the spot pretending to be a customer. After confirmation from the constable, the team raided the house and found three women and a man and four couples in comprising position.
CSP Sinha said, in addition to the kingpin Amardeep Mishra, Mohammed Danish, Hemant Jaat and Jitendra Keer were arrested. All the accused are booked under relevant sections of Prevention of Immoral Trafficking Act (PITA).
Three cops booked in
Kolar
case: A day after crime branch busted a major honeytrap racket being operated in Kolar, three policemen were booked on charges of extortion. The crime branch had raided the DK-5 Bungalow in Girdhar Parisar of Danish Kunj Colony in Kolar and arrested 20 accused, including nine women and 11 men, on Tuesday. The kingpin Dimpi along with her two associates Nidhi and Nandini operated the racket.
The accused policemen were identified as constable Anil Jaat, constable Subhash Gurjar and constable Laad Singh. Jaat and Gurjar were earlier posted in crime branch from where they were line attached around a month ago. Laad Singh was posted at Kamla Nagar police station.
ASP (crime branch) Nishchal Jharia said that the accused kingpins in their statements told police that they identified high profile clients and blackmailed them in two ways. They shot videos of the client with the women in compromising position and extorted money, threatening to share their photos on social media or file a police case.
Sometimes, the constables would ‘raid’ the location catching the clients with the woman and extort them by threatening to frame them in a prostitution case. Source said, a renowned doctor of Kolar was allegedly blackmailed by the cops and the kingpin in the past. Police said, the constables have extorted somewhere around Rs7-8 lakh from the clients.
(The victim's identity has not been revealed to protect her privacy as per Supreme Court directives on cases related to sexual assault)