Police in Jharkhand's East Singhbhum district busted a sex racket operating at an ice cream factory, arresting seven people, including five women.
The police on Friday claimed to have arrested 'a local Bharatiya Janata Party leader' along with 10 others on charges of running a sex racket in a hotel in West Bengal's Howrah district, while the state's main opposition party denied any association with the accused individuals.
The West Bengal Police on Wednesday arrested Ariyan Khan, one of the prime accused in the Howrah sex and pornographic film racket, from a hideout in the Golf Green area of south Kolkata, a senior officer said.
This is the second chargesheet filed by the agency in just a little over two months since the agency began investigating the racket.
Ashok Chand, deputy commissioner of crime branch, has set his eyes on the sex rackets that have been thriving in the National capital in almost all parts of the city to break the nexus between Indian middlemen and foreign women who are paid hefty sums anything between Rs 1 to 1.5 lakh a month for the services rendered to their clients.
The social activist who brought the alleged sex scandal to limelight in 1996, "forced me to say everything.''
The sex racket involving the Uzbek women was unearthed last week by police, who trapped them by sending a decoy. The women had told the police about Jureau, who was initially mistaken by police to be Russian.
Four girls and five pimps have been arrested from Handwara area in Kupwara district.
The victim has identified them as being her 'visitors'.
The slogan shouting intensified when the court fixed July one as next date of hearing and referred the bail applications to Divisional Bench.
The incident occurred when the duo and a Congress MLA were in Ahmedabad to campaign for the assembly election.
The two, if convicted, will have to undergo three months imprisonment or pay a fine of Rs 20,000 or both.
A young woman has alleged that a Dravida Munnetra Kazhagam youth wing functionary at Arakkonam in Ranipet district tried to make her available for sexual exploitation for bigwigs, with the opposition AIADMK vowing to get justice to her.
Acting on the directions of the Jammu and Kashmir High Court, a team from the Central Bureau of Investigations will arrive in Srinagar on Thursday to initiate a probe against individuals named in the sex racket case. The eight-member team of the agency, headed by SSP R S Dhankar, will be assisted by a group of state police officials. The sex racket, which came to light in March last year, rocked the state after the victims named some high profile politicians, police officials
'Women in crime can turn on and off emotions like a tap.' 'Something that comes in the way of their goals can be eliminated without a second thought.'
The minor was rescued after the Anti-Human Trafficking Unit of Mira-Bhayander Vasai-Virar police, in a joint operation with NGOs Exodus Road India Foundation and Harmony Foundation, raided a flat in Naigaon in Vasai in Palghar on July 26, the official said.
Marak, a former militant leader, had gone absconding following a police raid -- which started Friday night and ran till Saturday morning -- at the farmhouse at Tura in Meghalaya's West Garo Hills district.
Rafael Nadal's championship point winning racket from his 2007 French Open final victory over Roger Federer was sold for more than $118,000 at an auction on Monday, ranking among the highest-priced such memorabilia.
Close on the heels of exposing the alleged Tollywood-drug mafia link, the Hyderabad police on Monday claimed to have busted a high-profile prostitution racket and arrested eight persons, including two small-time Telugu film actresses, and a woman from Uzbekistan.
The sex scandal that rocked Jammu and Kashmir last year took a new turn on Monday, when the state High Court directed the Central Bureau of Investigation to place all records related to the eight accused before the chief judicial magistrate for judicial action. The accused include one senior minister, two MLAs and several senior police officials. The high court's order has caused ripples in the state's political, administrative and social circles.
Kerala home minister says those who had been in the front of 'Kiss of Love' protest are among the key accused in the case.
The police also rescued two women, who were scheduled to go to Goa with dummy customers, after the racket was busted on Monday evening, a senior official said.
The Allapuzza the police found that nearly 1,700 girls were trapped in sex rackets. Many of them were exploited due to their poor financial background and some were threatened and blackmailed into the trade. Vicky Nanjappa reports
Delhi Law Minister Somnath Bharti on Wednesday demanded an independent probe into alleged role of "some persons" of Ugandan high commission and Delhi police in sex and drug rackets.
So far, 15 people have been arrested in connection with the case.
'I've not been doing much work because I was not getting the kind of roles I want to do.'
Accused of raping a minor girl, arrested Deputy Inspector General of Border Security Force K S Padhi has been identified by her in Srinagar on Sunday night, Central Bureau of Investigation sources said on Monday.
A Guwahati-based non governmental organistaion, which conducted a study recently, has claimed that about 20 per cent of teenagers of the north-eastern region, between 11-17 years, are being compelled to become sex workers. In the study titled 'Rise in Child Prostitution in the north-east', the Global Organisation for Life Development stated that a five per cent rise had been registered in children getting involved in sex rackets from the past year.
The Federal Bureau of Investigation is probing the incident. A federal official told CNN that no foul play is suspected in his death.
Rahul Pasupalan, who was the key organizer of the 'Kiss Protests' in Kerala last year, and his model wife were among six arrested On Wednesday in connection with an online prostitution case.
Britain has launched a probe into allegations of "sex for asylum" racket after an NRI alleged that 'corrupt' officials prefer to give visas to 'attractive' girls in return for sexual favours.
The Central Bureau of Investigation on Saturday arrested four persons, including a policeman, in connection with the sex racket case after questioning them for the last two days.
The accused was an important link in the scam with German national Freddy Peats, who operated the sex racket in Goa until his arrest in 1991, which subsequently led to his conviction five years later.
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