Odishatv Bureau

Bhubaneswar: Police today confirmed sex racket link of the drunken woman who was arrested for misbehaving and attacking police on Monday.

Photos of many call girls, along with their rates were found in the seized mobile of the caretaker of the Patia flat, the woman, reportedly an Uzbekistan citizen, was staying in. Police today said it has busted a huge racket which was controlled by phone and online by the flat caretaker.

During preliminary investigation police found the involvement of a couple in the racket. The female mastermind among them was running the business from a rented house at Plot-28 in Patia’s Maruti Villa.

It is suspected that the female mastermind had a link with sex racket kingpin Sunil Meher.

Bhubaneswar DCP Satyabrata Bhoi informed, "There are many other people involved in it and we are trying to trace them. We have already found the name and address of few persons. The reach of the network will be established later on."

Police forwarded the arrested caretaker Tapas Jena to court today. He was found to be a resident of Midnapore but he has not yet divulged any information about the mastermind.

"I am here since three days and I do not know any person. The owner is working in mining sector but I do not know his name," said Jena to OTV.

While Jena was arrested on Tuesday, the woman had been arrested by Kharvel Nagar police on Monday for assaulting police personnel in an inebriated state near the city railway station on Sunday.

During police interrogation she was found to possess an Aadhaar Card bearing name Duniya Khan from Lajpat Nagar, South Delhi.

Talking about the seized Aadhaar card, DCP Bhoi said that an Aadhaar number in that name exists but police has not received any official intimation yet.

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