The Mumbai Crime Branch arrested two women and rescued two victims.
The Mumbai Crime Branch on Tuesday busted a sex tourism racket. Two people were arrested while two women were rescued who were scheduled to go to Goa with dummy customers. The racket was busted after receiving information about a woman, who was rescued in a case of immoral traffic prevention last year and was in business of sex tourism with others at various popular destinations across the country.
On Monday evening the police laid a trap at the Mumbai airport when a flight to Goa was scheduled from there. At the airport the woman operator was accompanied by two females who were on their way to Goa. They approached a police officer posing as a client who was going to Goa with one of his friends. After the money transaction, the officer alerted his team and the woman operator and two other females were taken in.
The woman operator would allegedly offer her client to take a woman in exchange of money of Rs 50,000 for two days to a tourist destination, preferably Goa. Later the crime branch team found out from the woman operator about the main accused who had already entered the flight departure gate at the airport. She was getting her boarding pass when she was caught.
The accused admitted to the crime during the interrogation. An FIR was lodged against her and the woman operator under relevant provisions of the Indian Penal Code (IPC) and Immoral Traffic (Prevention) Act. Police inspectors Manish Shridhankar and Priya Thorat were the ones to head the team said Deputy Commissioner of Police Datta Nalawade.
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