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Delhi Police bust sex racket, rescue 4 women, 1 minor girl from ‘brothel’
According to the Delhi Police, a raid was conducted based on a tip-off that women and girls are being forced into sex work at the alleged brothel in outer North Delhi's Swaroop Nagar.
A police team, accompanied by women officers and the NGO staffers Shivam and Jyoti, set up a decoy operation.
The Delhi Police on Thursday night busted a sex racket and rescued four women and a minor girl during a raid inside a house in the outer North Delhi’s Swaroop Nagar.
The raid was conducted based on a tip-off from an NGO that women and girls are being forced into sex work at the alleged brothel run by individuals identified as Devesh Yadav, Arjun Kumar, and Bharti, the police said.
A police team, accompanied by women officers and the NGO staffers Shivam and Jyoti, set up a decoy operation. “An advance payment of Rs 1,000 was made on the QR Code of the broker through Shivam. As a decoy customer, Shivam was sent to the address, and on his gesture, the raiding team raided the premises. We found five women along with five men present at the spot,” said Hareshwar Swami, Deputy Commissioner of Police, Outer North.
The police said that they are interrogating five men — Yadav, Arjun Kumar, Sajid, Akhilesh, and Rajnish — who were present at the house. Sajid, Akhilesh, and Rajnish were identified as ‘customers’, according to an officer.
During questioning, three women allegedly said that they had been hired by the accused to provide sexual services.
The five rescued victims include a 35-year-old woman from Samaypur Badli, a 50-year-old from Swaroop Nagar, a 25-year-old from Shahbad Dairy, a 52-year-old woman, and a 15-year-old girl.
The police said the minor has been sent to a shelter home in Bakhtawarpur, where her statement is being recorded with the help of counsellors.
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Investigators recovered 35 packets of condoms and a diary containing the QR code used for the payment. A medical examination revealed that one of the rescued women tested positive for pregnancy.
The police have registered a case under sections 3, 4, and 5 of the Immoral Traffic (Prevention) Act at the Swaroop Nagar police station. Based on subsequent findings, sections 11 and 17 of the Protection of Children from Sexual Offences (Pocso) Act, Section 96 of the Bharatiya Nyaya Sanhita, and Section 7 of the ITP Act were added.
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