New Delhi, Nov 08: With the arrest of four girls from Mumbai and two alleged pimps from the premises of a five-star hotel here, Delhi Police today claimed to have busted a high profile prostitution racket allegedly catering to the affluent class. Kamini (21), Nasiha alias Tania (19), Kamini Patil (21), Maushami Roy (26) and Sophia Paul (27) besides pimps Hitesh (24) and Vikas Yadav (26) were nabbed in the parking lot of the hotel on Janpath road in Connaught Place area last night on the basis of a specific information, DCP (New Delhi) Manoj Lall said.
Hitesh was allegedly the kingpin of the racket and he used to call the girls from Mumbai on contract basis for amounts ranging around Rs 40,000 each for 15 days, he said.
Acting on the information about the racket, police sent a decoy to strike a deal with Hitesh, Lall said.
As soon as the deal was struck for Rs 2,000, a police team conducted a raid and apprehended all the six accused.
Two Maruti cars, used for ferrying the girls, were also seized, police said.
According to police, Hitesh used to strike deals with customers in hotels directly and then call the girls,
He used to provide boarding and lodging to them and supply them to customers with the help of his associate Vikas Yadav, he said.
Police said Hitesh used to issue advertisements in leading newspapers for providing massage services in hotels but engaged in running prostitution racket.
Bureau Report