Mumbai : Three girls, including a 16-year-old minor, have been rescued and one 40-year-old lady pimp has been arrested by the Social Service Branch of Mumbai Police late evening on Friday for running a sex racket in a spa centre in Andheri West.
Acting on a tip off, the SSB officials laid a trap and sent one dummy customer to Clean Beauty and Spa, near Swadeshi Hotel on Friday evening.
The lady pimp demanded Rs 5000 for adult girls and Rs 8000 for minors. The dummy customer agreed to pay and called the SSB officials, who carried out the raid.
The PI of SSB Raja Bidkar said all the girls were brought from Kolkata for running a sex racket in the guise of spa centre in the posh colony.
The husband of lady pimp is also involved in the prostitution business, said Bidkar, adding that they run two/three more spa centres in the area. The hunt to nab her absconding husband is underway, he said.
The couple, resident of Indira Nagar, also supplies girls to high profile people in the city to make handsome money.
SSB officials have handed over the lady pimp to DN Nagar police station where a case under relevant sections of PITA Act and POCSO Act has been registered against her.
The minor girl has been sent to a reform centre in Dongri and both the adult girls have been sent to Navjeevan Sudhar Grih in Chembur.
The sex racket is rampant in and around city. Recently, the Crime branch along with SSB officials carried out raid on four city bars and rescued nearly 60 women in total.