Six held for sex racket in Chandlodia
A prostitution racket run under the cover of a Naari Utkarsh Kendra, a non-government organisation, was busted in city late on Monday night and six persons were arrested by the police.

The main accused, Amrit Patel,53, who ran the Naari Utkarsh Kendra from his residence at Chandlodia was an employee of Geetanjali hotel near Dhanasutar Pol in Kalupur and had bought a flat in Chandlodia after resigning his job.

The police sent a decoy customer with money to the flat and he was asked to communicate through a code signal. Three customers and two call girls were rounded up late at night. Police recovered obscene literature and video cassettes of blue films. The accused have been booked under Immoral Traffic Prevention Act section 3, 4, 5 and Indian Penal Code section 292. Meanwhile, Amrit Patel has moved a bail application in the city rural court before magistrate R.D. Jani. The court will decide on the bail on Wednesday.

Republished from The Asian Age