Daijiworld Media Network - Mangaluru (SP)
Six persons arrested so far
Mangaluru, Jun 22: In connection with the raid on a hotel and lodge at Pumpwell in the city in which six girls of Bangladesh origin were rescued, six persons have been arrested and a case has been registered against eight persons. In the raid led by deputy commissioner of police, Uma Prashanth, two persons reportedly succeeded in giving the police a slip.
During the raid, several cell phones, Bangladesh currency notes, and Indian currency were confiscated by the police. The arrested men have been identified as Pavan Acharya (24) from Kakkinje, Charmadi in Beltangady taluk, Dinesh (26) from Soraba in Shivamogga district, Veerendra Narayan Kumar (32) from Murdeshwar in Bhatkal taluk, Revanna (27), resident of Bookanakere in Mandya, Ravikumar (28) from Kunigal in Tumakuru district, and Rajesh (25) from Hasanabalu in Sringeri taluk.
Manager of the lodge and owners Chandrashekhar and Shivaram have escaped. In the past, raids had been conducted on this lodge, but as per a system streamlined by the concerned, alarms used to go off in the cell phones of the girls, and the girls promptly escaped into a room by opening a concealed door in the toilet wall which is not visible to naked eye. Therefore, the activities went undetected. During the current raid too the girls had entered this room through a small opening by opening the wall door and locked themselves up inside. But Odanadi, a NGO from Mysuru, which had studied these tricks, found out the hollow spot by tapping the walls with a wooden stick and made the girls to come out, it is gathered. It is learnt that during the operation, a few girls who had holed themselves in the fourth floor, escaped during the period the police were making effort to reach them.