High-profile sex racket busted in a Patna hotel

Patna, April 14, 2017: Patna Police claimed to have busted a high-profile sex racket running in a hotel located at Gosai Totla under Patliputra Police station on Friday and took 12 women including one sex worker into custody.

The police have also arrested 16 persons in objectionable condition. Police have rounded up 6 hotel staff members including the manager for further investigation.

The owner of the hotel, however, gave the police a slip and escaped. Police have sealed the hotel.

Most of the arrested persons were said to be students.

Senior Superintendent of Police (SSP) Manu Maharaj said the owner of the hotel used to call the girls from Rajasthan, Bengal and Nepal on the pretext providing jobs to them but they were thrown into the flesh trade.

He said some of the girls told him that they had been exploited physically and economically by the owner of the hotel for the past a few months.

He said a large number of drugs and condoms were recovered from hotel room.

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