Port Blair, Aug 07: Continuing its crackdown on prostitution activities, South Andaman District special police team has busted two prostitution racket in the city on 5th& 6th August. Altogether six persons have been arrested from the brothels running from Namita lodge, Phoenix Bay and Meshak Hotel,Babulane, Port Blair.
After gathering intelligence about the ongoing immoral business, DySP (South Andaman) ShriMohd.Aslam led a police party of District Special team comprising of SI Abdul Sajid SHO PS Aberdeen (i/c) ASI M. Abdul Rasheed, HC Surya Narayan constables Mohd. Imran, AshishMallick, M. Raja Rao, RakeshToppo and Nagveni to raid the brothel.
Earlier, on 5th August 2014, a trap was laid by sending a cop as a decoy customer at Namita Lodge. A deal was struck with the lodge owner (brothel owner). Soon after the police party raided the lodge as per the plan and arrested Nagen Biswas (72)yrs, owner of Namita Lodge Phoenix Bay r/o Phoenix Bay,the alleged person with whom the decoys had struck the deal along with two ladies from the rooms of Namita Lodge.
Meanwhile, in another raid, on 6th August 2014, a deal was struck by the decoy customer with one Miss Anjana Mistry who had rented a room in Hotel Meshak, Babulane for carrying out prostitution business by submitting genuine reasons to Hotel Manager as they had came from Diglipur. The police party raided room no. 131 of Hotel at Babulane and arrested one Anjana Mistry (25) yrs. r/o Sita Nagar, Diglipur now residing at Shippighat near Panchayat Office,who was running the racket in the hotel room alongwith two other ladies.
All of them were arrested on the spot under various sections of The Immoral Traffic (Prevention) Act, 1956 and kingpins were remanded to judicial custody.