Major Prostitution raid at Calangute. Two pimps arrested. Three victim girls rescued. 

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Calangute police have busted one major high end prostitution racket during the evening of 06/12/2018 and arrested two accused pimps namely 1. Mr. Santosh Kumar Kar S/o Balaram Kar, age 27 yrs, N/o Balasore, Odisha and 2. Mr. Manjunath S/o Sidappa Belganoor, age-25 yrs, R/o Aradi, Candolim, Bardez Goa.

 

As per PI Jivba Dalvi they had been keeping watch on the above two pimps since last 10 days as they were found involved in prostitution activities moving around in a white i20 car.

 

Accordingly today police decided to lay a trap with the help of a dummy customer.

Further the presence of NGO member was secured. The dummy customer was made ready for the raid and contact was established with the pimps. As soon as the deal was finalised the dummy customer was called at Maddowado, Calangute for delivery of the victim girls. Further the raiding team as per the information proceeded and waited at Maddowado, Calangute in disguise.

 

Further  the accused pimps arrived in a i20 car  bearing No:  GA 08 K 9225  and began negotiating with the dummy customer.

 

At this time the raiding team nabbed both the pimps and rescued the 03 victim girls.

 

During the raid 06 mobile phones worth Rs. 1,20,000/-, cash of Rs. 20,000/- and the i20 car was attached under the panchanama.

 

An offence under section 370, 370(3) IPC & section 4, 5 , 7 of Immoral Trafficking(Prevention) Act has been regsitered. The raid went on from 03 pm to 06 pm in the evening.

 

The victim girls are native of Gujarat, West Bengal and Mumbai respectively and all have been lodged in State Protective Home, Merces for safe custody and protection.

 

The accused persons are having criminal history as Santosh Kumar kar was earlier twice arrested in similar crimes by Calangute  Police Station while accused Manjunath Belganoor  was arrested last year by Calangute police.

 

The raiding team was led by PI Jivba Dalvi and consisted of PSI Sitaram Malik, LPSI Sapna Gawas, head constable Subhash Mavlankar, constables Vidyanand Amonkar, Sameer Sawant, Mahendra Chari and lady constables Dipika Harmalkar, Mithila Bayekar and NGO Hope Foundation member Andrea Pereira.

 

Further investigation is in progress with PI Jivba Dalvi under the supervision of  SP North IPS Chandan Choudhary.

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