Flesh trade racket busted in Baddi hotel

A team of Baddi police unearthed a flesh trade racket being run from Hotel Yogesh at Baddi and rescued a 28-year-old Punjab woman during a raid late last night.

On a tip-off that the hotel owner and manager were running the illicit trade, the police sent a decoy customer, who paid Rs 1,500 to the manager.

A police team raided the hotel around 1.45 am and found a woman with the decoy customer in room number 111. The woman told the police that she hailed from Hoshiarpur in Punjab and had come here at the insistence of the hotel owner.

She revealed that she was paid Rs 500 per person by the hotel owner and claimed that she got involved in this due to her adverse domestic circumstances. The police also recovered Rs 1,500 from the reception counter, which had been paid by the decoy customer to the manager.

A case under Sections 3 and 4 of the Immoral Traffic (Prevention) Act has been registered and a probe is underway, a police officer said.

This is third such case in the industrial belt in the last few weeks after the police stepped up their vigil to check nefarious activities. — TNS