Casting director, actor Aarti Mittal arrested for allegedly running a prostitution racket in the film industry

The Crime Branch Unit 11 busted a sex racket running within the film industry on Monday. The prostitution racket is allegedly being run by casting director Aarti Mittal, as informed by the Mumbai Crime Branch.

Two models were rescued from a spot in Goregaon and they were sent to the rehab centre. The models informed police that Aarti had promised to pay them Rs 15,000 each. Police had sent dummy customers to the hotel and that's how they busted this racket and arrested Mittal. As per the officials, Police Inspector Manoj Sutar recieved information about this racket.

So, he formed a team and posed as a customer and called Mittal and asked her for two girls for his friends. Mittal demanded Rs 60,000 to arrange for them. The police also stated that Aarti targetted when she met them during various projects by offering them good money to get into prostitution.

Aarti is also an actor apart from being a casting director. She's worked in television shows like 'Apnapan' as well. The show stars Rajshree Thakur. A while ago, Aarti had posted on social media that she's shooting for a film with R Madhavan.




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