An Indian national was among the four arrested on Sunday by the Nepal Police in Parsa district for forcing women working in their hotel and guesthouse into prostitution. Acting on a tipoff, a special team raided a hotel and a guesthouse separately in Birgunj metropolitan city.
The Indian National who was arrested was identified as Raya aged 35, who was also the manager of the hotel, a native of Bihar. The others were Sukrati Chaudhari, 32, of Mahottari, Dipesh Rai, 33 of Okhaldhunga, and Mira Kumari Mahato, 38, from Bara, according to a news bulletin issued by police.
They were found to be forcing the women working in their hotel and guesthouse into prostitution. Police have also rescued two women from their custody.
Prostitution racket busted in Maharashtra
Last month, the police exposed a prostitution business that was being run from a lodge in Maharashtra's Thane city and rescued four women, an official said. A garage operator, identified as Ranjit Vaishnav, 42, has been arrested for forcing the women into the illicit business, while the lodge owner, Ashok Shetty, is on the run, he said.
The Kasarwadavali police had raided the lodge, located under their jurisdiction, and rescued four women, aged between 26 and 30, from two rooms, the official said.
Vaishnav and Shetty have been booked under Bharatiya Nyaya Sanhita section 143 (trafficking of person) and the Immoral Traffic (Prevention) Act, he added.
In another separate incident, police arrested a couple for allegedly operating a flesh trade business at their hotel in the state's Raigad district, officials had said.
Based on an information, the police sent a decoy customer to the hotel at Chendhare in Alibaug taluka and found that prostitution business was going on in the premises, a police release said. Three women were found engaged in flesh trade at the premises, the police said. A case was registered against the couple under relevant legal provisions.
(With inputs from PTI)