Mumbai: Models out of work forced into sex trade, three held

MUMBAI: A “high-profile” prostitution racket operating in Juhu has been busted with the arrest three pimps and the rescue of eight women, some of them models. Two pimps are still at large, said crime branch officials.
Crime Intelligence Unit led by assistant inspector Sachin Waze and his team had got information of the racket through a website and on WhatsApp.The accused persons would send pictures of women with rates of services.
The arrested pimps were identified as Sandeep Ingole (38), Tanya Sharma (31) and Hanufa Sardar alias Taniya (26) while two — Himesh and Ashish — are at large.
Cops posed as clients and it was decided that nine girls would be sent. The cops told the pimps they had booked nine rooms at a five star hotel in Juhu. “On Tuesday evening, the pimps were arrested when they came to take money,” said an officer. The women said a big chunk of the money was kept by the pimps.
The women were out of work in the lockdown and were were forced into prostitution.