Port Blair, Aug 05: South Andaman District Police has busted two prostitution rackets in Port Blair area and arrested five persons from two brothels running in the houses by Vanaja@ Priya at Prem Nagar and Jameela Begum at Burmanallah.
On 3rd August 2014 on receiving an input about ongoing immoral business, a Police team led by DySP (South Andaman) Shri Mohd.Aslam along with police party of District Special team comprising of ASI M. Abdul Rasheed, HC Surya Narayan constables Mohd. Imran, Ashish Mallick, M. Raja Rao and Nagveni was formed and a trap was laid by sending a Police Officer as a decoy customer. A deal was struck with the brothel owner. Soon thereafter the police party raided the house as per the plan and arrested the brothel owner Miss Vanaja @ Priya (22) yrs., r/o Prem Nagar, her assistant Yugesh Lall @ Thufan (22) yrs Pvt. Worker r/o RGT Road behind Girls School from the spot.
Meanwhile, in another trap laid, on 4th August a deal was struck with brothel owner Jameela Begum by decoy. The police party raided the house at Burmanallah and arrested the brothel owner Jameela Begum (40) yrs. r/o Burmanallah from the spot.
All of them were arrested on the spot under various sections of The Immoral Traffic (Prevention) Act, 1956 and the brothel owners Vanaja @ Priya, Yugesh Lall @ Thufan and Jameela Begum have been remanded to judicial custody.