We arrested them and charged them under relevant sections of the Prevention of Immoral Trafficking Act," Barge said.ĭuring interrogation, the actress said they had flown to Mumbai from Chennai on Saturday and came to Pune in a private taxi. "On Saturday night, the actress came to the hotel with her stepbrother. The father also asked the man posing as a client to book two rooms, one for the actress and another for her stepbrother, at the Vimannagar hotel, Barge said. The father said he would get a Tamil model and actress, who would charge Rs 3 lakh for two hours," Barge said. We got someone to pose as a client and contacted the actress's father.
We also got information that some models and actresses from the film industry were involved in the racket. "Police constable Ashok Takalkar received a tip-off about the actress's father running a sex racket in the city. She has also modelled for the garment and diamond industries in Chennai, he said.Īcting on a tip-off, a police team from the social security cell of the crime branch laid a trap at a five-star hotel at Vimannagar and arrested the actress and her stepbrother. As a child, she had acted in several Tamil films. Speaking to TOI, senior police inspector Bhanupratap Barge said the actress recently played the lead role in three Tamil movies, none of which have been released yet. Shockingly, the actress's father, who runs a photo studio at Versova in Mumbai, ran the racket and would identify clients for his daughter, the police said. The police also arrested the actress's 32-year-old stepbrother, who used to accompany her to different cities. The actress was nabbed at a five-star hotel in the city. The crime branch here busted a sex racket on Saturday night, arresting a 22-year-old actress from the Tamil film industry on charges of prostitution.
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