Sex racket busted in State Capital,Odisha

Bureau,Odihsbarta

Bhubaneswar: Odisha Police busted a sex racket allegedly being run in the guise of a consultancy centre in Bhubaneswar and rescued four girls, police said on Monday.

After receiving a complaint from a girl, the police raided a three-storied building at Satya Vihar area under Mancheswar police limits in the city, said ACP (zone-3) Sanjeev Tripathy. During the raid, the centre owner, identified as Laxmi Narayan Patnaik, was arrested, he said.

“Yesterday, a woman, who was brought to the consultancy centre for providing her a job and forced into flesh trade, was able to escape from the agency and lodged a complaint before Mancheswar police station. Acting on it, we raided the centre and rescued four girls from the spot,” said Tripathy.

The ACP said the girls at the consultancy firm were being forced into flesh trade in the guise of offering them lucrative jobs. “An immoral trafficking case has been registered in this connection,” said Bhubaneswar DCP Umashankar Dash.

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