Sex racket busted in Pune; 12 girls rescued

January 30, 2013 14:48

A high profile inter-state sex racket was busted by the Pune crime branch in which 12 girls, including nine from other countries, were rescued and five alleged procurers arrested, the police said today.

The operation was carried out in an apartment in the plush Koregaon park area on Monday night on a tip-off by a local municipal corporator and with the help of a decoy customer, said Bhanupratap Barge, inspector, social security cell of the Pune police's crime branch.

The detained girls, aged between 19 and 25, included one each from Uzbekistan and Nepal and seven from Bangladesh, and three Indian girls including one from Delhi.

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