Daijiworld Media Network - Mangaluru
Mangaluru, Jun 22: The city crime branch (CCB) police on Friday June 22 unearthed a major hi-tech prostitution racket that was being operated through a website, and succeeded in arresting two persons.
The arrested have been identified as Jeevan Poojary (27), a resident of Padu Palimar, Udupi, and K P Nagaraj (27) of Chennarayapatna of Hassan district. Among the two, Jeevan is said to be the pimp.
The accused were operating mangalore.locanto.net website through which they were providing girls to customers. Based on this information, the CCB police on Friday raided an aparment near Kottara cross on Bejai-Kapikad road and arrested the duo.
The accused had put up their mobile numbers on the website and customers who contacted them would be told to come to the flat, where they would be supplied girls.
The police also rescued two girls who were being used for the racket and handed them over women rehabilitation centre.
Two mobile phones and Rs 30,222 in cash along with a couple of two-wheelers were seized from the accused. The total value of the seized items has been estimated at Rs 1,26,295.
Two more pimps who were involved in the prostitution racket are absconding.
The arrested accused as well as the seized items have been handed over to Urwa police for further investigation.
CCB police inspector Shantaram, PSI Shyamsunder, Kabbal Raj, Urwa police inspector Ravish Naik and other police personnel were part of the operation.