BENGALURU: While investigating the case of a missing person — a 16-year-old girl from Munnekolalu, Marathahalli — city police stumbled on a prostitution racket that used to be centred in New Delhi and involved a peon at a sub-registrar’s office in Bengaluru. While the kingpin and an affiliate eluded a team of Marathahalli police in Delhi, law enforcement officials nabbed four individuals including the peon. A price sheet used to be filed in March and a hunt is on for the others.
Police found that the teenaged girl used to be allegedly lured by means of the peon, recognized by means of sleuths as Ok Shivashankar alias Raju, 30, a resident of Bangarpet, Kolar district, on the pretext of touchdown her a job in Delhi. Shivashankar offered the girl to Kajal, the woman who runs the brothel in Delhi and the primary accused within the case, for Rs 70,000 and Kajal forced the 16-year-old into prostitution.
The search for the girl began in June 2017, and in the beginning Marathahalli police had little to move on beyond the standard suspects — friends and family. They got their giant break when the girl phoned her mom in September. Police traced the decision to Delhi and a team used to be sent to the nationwide capital to apply up. After months of work, police raided the brothel in Delhi in December and rescued the teenager and some other from Mulabagilu, Kolar district.
The price sheet claims Shivashankar used to be offered into the racket by means of Venkatesh. The two first met in 2013 when Venkatesh visited the sub-registrar’s office the place Shivashankar labored to sign in property. Venkatesh promised Shivashankar a commission of between Rs five,000 and Rs 10,000 for every girl he supplied.
Shivashankar allegedly offered a “few” girls to Venkatesh and when Venkatesh died in December 2014, Shivashankar established touch with Kajal and began at once promoting girls to her. Shivashankar had allegedly offered the Mulabagilu girl too.
In the case of the 16-year-old, police found that Shivashankar and Turub Pasha, an affiliate, took her to the Kempegowda International Airport the place she used to be passed over to Kajal. Shivashankar used to be paid Rs 70,000 and Kajal and the girl then flew to Delhi.
Based on information from the victim, police arrested Chotu Ram Dev, 40, and Rajesh Kumar, 34, both residents of New Delhi. Pasha, 38, a resident of KG Halli, used to be additionally arrested together with Shivashankar. Police say Kajal and Sarika, her affiliate, managed to escape throughout the raid on the brothel.
Police found that the teenaged girl used to be allegedly lured by means of the peon, recognized by means of sleuths as Ok Shivashankar alias Raju, 30, a resident of Bangarpet, Kolar district, on the pretext of touchdown her a job in Delhi. Shivashankar offered the girl to Kajal, the woman who runs the brothel in Delhi and the primary accused within the case, for Rs 70,000 and Kajal forced the 16-year-old into prostitution.
The search for the girl began in June 2017, and in the beginning Marathahalli police had little to move on beyond the standard suspects — friends and family. They got their giant break when the girl phoned her mom in September. Police traced the decision to Delhi and a team used to be sent to the nationwide capital to apply up. After months of work, police raided the brothel in Delhi in December and rescued the teenager and some other from Mulabagilu, Kolar district.
The price sheet claims Shivashankar used to be offered into the racket by means of Venkatesh. The two first met in 2013 when Venkatesh visited the sub-registrar’s office the place Shivashankar labored to sign in property. Venkatesh promised Shivashankar a commission of between Rs five,000 and Rs 10,000 for every girl he supplied.
Shivashankar allegedly offered a “few” girls to Venkatesh and when Venkatesh died in December 2014, Shivashankar established touch with Kajal and began at once promoting girls to her. Shivashankar had allegedly offered the Mulabagilu girl too.
In the case of the 16-year-old, police found that Shivashankar and Turub Pasha, an affiliate, took her to the Kempegowda International Airport the place she used to be passed over to Kajal. Shivashankar used to be paid Rs 70,000 and Kajal and the girl then flew to Delhi.
Based on information from the victim, police arrested Chotu Ram Dev, 40, and Rajesh Kumar, 34, both residents of New Delhi. Pasha, 38, a resident of KG Halli, used to be additionally arrested together with Shivashankar. Police say Kajal and Sarika, her affiliate, managed to escape throughout the raid on the brothel.
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