Sonu Punjaban attacked at Lakshmi Nagar

Tribune News Service

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New Delhi, January 23

Geeta Arora, alias Sonu Punjaban, the infamous high-class pimp was attacked in the Laxmi Nagar area, east Delhi, while she was driving back home in the early hours of January 23, said police.

Punjaban was in jail in connection with a case of trafficking and forcing a girl into prostitution. Currently, she is out on parole.

Punjaban, along with her brother, was returning after meeting someone at Geeta Colony when three bullets were shot at her, in the attack she survived, they said.

If version of police is to be believed, it was all scripted. However, on getting the complaint, police is investigating the matter.

Punjaban had come out of the jail 4-5 days ago and has around 20 cases registered against her, they said.

Punjaban is notorious for immoral trafficking, sale, rape and torturing minor girls for prostitution at many places in Delhi, Uttar Pradesh and Haryana.

Punjaban had started flesh trade in shade of a beauty parlour and initially she was herself a call girl and later increased her gang of call girls in India, said police.

In 2007, she was arrested under sections of the Immoral Traffic Prevention Act. While she got bail in the 2007 case, she was arrested for the same offence in 2008. When she was arrested in April 2011 as part of a raid in Mehraulli, she had already been booked for the same offence twice — which is one of the preconditions for invoking Maharashtra Control of Organised Crime Act (MCOCA).

In April 2011, the Delhi Police had arrested Punjaban after they received a tip-off that she and her accomplices had been spotted pimping women.

In 2014, a Delhi court acquitted Punjaban - who was accused of running an organised sex racket, charged under stringent provisions of the  MCOCA — released her of the charges due to lack of evidence.