Commissionerate police busts sex racket in Bhubaneswar

Bhubaneswar: In a bid to crack a whip on flesh trade, Capital city police busted a sex racket operating in the name of a massage parlour in the Railway station area here on Wednesday.

Acting on a tip off, Laxmi Nagar police officials raided a house in station area and arrested four persons including the owner of the house. Three girls rescued during the raid were shifted to a short stay home in the city.

According to sources, the three girls are residents of West Bengal while the three customers nabbed during the raid belong to Bihar.

Earlier, Commissionerate police busted a major prostitution racket that was operating in Nuapada of Cuttack district last month. Two women including one from West Bengal was also rescued by cops in the raid.