Sex racket busted in Thane, 2 arrested, 4 Bangladeshi women rescued

The Thane Crime Branch Unit 1 has busted a sex racket running in the Mumbra area. Two persons were arrested and four Bangladeshi women were rescued, including one minor.

The police rescued the women from a flat in Mumbra. They were allegedly trafficked in the city from Bangladesh by a person called Mujahidin on the pretext of giving them an opportunity to work in the film industry.

The arrested accused have been identified as Sagar alias Tapas Ajit Chakraborty (36) and Rahul alias Rasool Monirul Ismail Mulla (31), both hailing from West Bengal.

According to Thane Police, they had got a tip-off from an informer that the woman were being used as sex workers at the flat in Mumbra,
Acting on the tip off, officials of the Thane police raided the apartment in Shibli Nagar and arrested the duo. They rescued four women in the age group of 16 to 28.

"The four women are from Dhaka in Bangladesh and were brought to Mumbai by the duo promising to get them jobs," said an officer Anti-Human Trafficking Cell of the Crime Branch.  
The girls were kept in Mumbra and would be taken to Nagpada in Mumbai for sex work.