The Pune city police have busted a prostitution ring running under the garb of a spa in Koregaon Park and rescued seven women, including four Thai nationals.
Among the rescued women, two were from Maharashtra and one from West Bengal. The police arrested one person who operated the spa and launched a search for its owner.
A team from the Social Security Cell of Pune city police’s crime branch was working on specific information that a prostitution racket was running from a spa building with residential and commercial sections on South Main Road in Koregaon Park. After verifying the input, a team from the cell raided the spa Saturday.
The police registered an offence at the Koregaon Park police station under the Immoral Traffic (Prevention) Act and relevant sections of the Indian Penal Code (IPC) pertaining to human trafficking.
The Social Security Cell teams recently conducted several actions against spa centres and massage parlours operating prostitution rackets.