Chennai: Two officers caught in sex rackets

CHENNAI: Two police inspectors on Tuesday discovered themselves on the fringes and in difficult to understand posts after a probe showed their involvement in separate intercourse rackets. The officers had even set up felony teams to help run the syndicates, while serving in — possibly not coincidentally — the Chennai police anti-vice squad (AVS).

Inspectors Sam Vincent and M Saravanan earned lakhs of rupees in collusion with pimps all the way through their AVS stint, the departmental probe had discovered. Police commissioner A K Viswanathan had ordered the inquiry in accordance with a confidential intelligence report.

The division transferred each officers to the city’s southern outer edge, shunting inspector Vincent to the Pallavaram police and Saravanan to the Thoraipakkam police.

The officers, the inquiry printed, were each intently concerned within the operation of massage parlours and different fronts for prostitution, hiring the services of lawyers and the use of pimps to run dual intercourse rackets with quite a lot of hands, one extending throughout core city spaces and the the opposite within the suburbs.

Policemen shifted after investigation

Police assets said the departmenthadinitially posted inspector Vincent as a leadofficer in thecity unitof the AVS. “But inspector Saravanan quickly upstaged him after he received a posting tothecity unitof theAVCon the recommendation of a state minister,” a source said.“Vincentthen movedoutto thesuburban unitof theAVS.”

The inquiry printed that the inspectors cultivated contacts and actively helped run prostitution networks in Chennai andon itsoutskirts.

“After receiving the inquiry report, commissioner Viswanathan on Tuesday determined to movetheofficersoutof the antivice squad,” he said. Kotturpuram inspector Mahalakshmi and intelligence wing inspector Shanmugavelan have taken their place as AVS inspectors. The division on Tuesday additionally introduced regimen transfers of law enforcement officials, transferring no less than 13 different officers. Inspector Padmavathi will take fee as theKodungaiyur crimewing inspector; Jothilakshmi has received a posting to the MKB Nagar asinspector (legislation andorder); inspector Tiripurasundari and inspector Jayabharathi will transfer to the Central Crime Branch(CCB); andinspector ValarmathijoinstheKotturpuram police(crimewing).

Inspector Murugan was moved to the Foreshore Estate (crime) and inspector Thanga Mangani to the special safety unit of the Chennai Police; it transferred inspector Prema to the Ennore police (crime); inspector IdhayaKala totheMuthialpet police (crime); inspector JayarajtotheMarina police(legislation andorder); andinspector E Saravanan tothecontrol room.