17 July,2014 12:24 PM IST | | Agencies
Police have busted a flesh trade racket at Vasai in Thane district after a 16-year-old school girl blew the lid off, a senior officer said today.
Thane: Police have busted a flesh trade racket at Vasai in Thane district after a 16-year-old school girl blew the lid off, a senior officer said today.
The accused, including two women, befriended the minor in April under the pretext of offering her professional training to work in a doctor's clinic, Inspector S H Patil of Nalla Sopara police station said yesterday.
The duo, however, took the victim to the house of one of the women and apparently detained her there for over last three months during which they forced her into prostitution, he said.
The girl somehow managed to escape from the house and approached police. Based on the complaint filed by her, police registered a case against ten persons under various sections of the Indian Penal Code, Protection of Children from Sexual Offences Act, 2012 and under provisions of the Prevention of Immoral Trafficking Act (PITA).
No arrest is made in the case so far.
