Blue film racket busted, 4 arrested

lucknow: police on sunday busted a racket showing pornographic films to minors at a house in aliganj. police claimed that video cassettes and cds in huge quantity were also recovered. four persons have been arrested in connection with the incident. reports said that the racket was busted following a tip off to superintendent of police (sp) trans-gomti, gulab singh.police raided the 1/15 residence of manoj srivastava in sector i area of aliganj. besides manoj, police also nabbed sunil verma and nand kishore of sector j in aliganj from the same house. police said sanjeev srivastava, brother of the prime accused manoj, however, managed to escape. police further said that the gang was involved in screening the porn films at the house from where the seizures and arrests were made. the films were screened on vcrs and the audience of minor boys were charged rs 20 per head. the cassettes and cds were rented out for rs 100 per day, police said. apart from the cassettes and cds, police recovered video cassette recorder (vcr), v-compact disc (vcd) player and colour televisions. police said that the prime accused, manoj srivastava, had been earlier arrested in connection with running a call girl racket. on the basis of the information provided by the accused, police then raided shyam video cassette store near gulacheen crossing in vikas nagar and seized pornographic films on cassettes and cds in huge quantity. the owner of the store, rajkumar agarwal, was also arrested.