Spa owner arrested for immoral trafficking

The police have booked owner of Modern Spa, Devaji Plaza Market, VIP Road, for immoral trafficking and rescued six foreign nationals from the centre on Saturday. Those arrested have been identified as Amritsar resident Baljeet Singh and Karnal resident Gobind Singh. Two more suspects are yet to be arrested. The cops said the two were produced in the court and sent to one-day police remand.

Five days ago, the police had booked the owners of five spa centres — Nature Touch Spa Centre, Buddha Thai Spa, Maria Spa, Orchid Spa and Infinity Spa Center — for engaging in flesh trade under the guise of massage parlours at the Chandigarh City Centre in Zirakpur.

After the police action, most of the other spa centres in the city shut shop and fled.

This is the fourth time in two years that a flesh trade racket running under the garb of spa and massage centres has been busted on the VIP Road.

Around 19 spa centres have been sealed and their owners booked and more than 26 girls, including foreign nationals, have been rescued from here in the past one year. There are more than a 100 spa and massage centres functional in Zirakpur.