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Prostitution racket busted, 7 held

NEW DELHI: Seven persons, including five women, have been arrested from two different places by the Crime Branch of Delhi Police on the charge of running prostitution rackets.

Three women, including the pimp, were arrested at PVR Saket in South Delhi on Wednesday by a Crime Branch team. The police said the pimp had hired the two girls -- who were paraded before decoy customers -- from Kolhapur in Maharashtra and Kolkata. She had also arranged for the accommodation for the two girls at Pushp Vihar in South Delhi, the police said. The accused also used to send the girls with her rich clients as escorts out of the city.

In the second case, the police arrested Neeraj Sharma and Sanjay Gautam along with two girls at Sector-2 Rohini in North-West Delhi. Neeraj and Sanjay have been allegedly involved in running prostitution rackets since 2000. Sanjay was earlier arrested in Rohini in 2000.

Alleged gangster arrested

NEW DELHI: An alleged gangster involved in 17 cases of murder, dacoity, robbery and extortion in Delhi and Haryana has been arrested by a team of Special Cell of Delhi police.

Inspector Rakesh Sangwan of Special Cell of Delhi police received information that an inter-state gangster of Haryana involved in many cases was trying to flee the country and had applied for a passport with fake identity. This information was further developed and it was ascertained that an application was filed in Mahesh Kumar's name at Regional Passport Office in New Delhi. The application bore Mahesh Kumar's photo and a verification certificate purportedly issued by an Army officer along with other forged documents.

A case was registered at Special Cell police station of Lodhi Colony on March 6 and on the same day Mahesh Kumar and passport agent Manish Chaudhary were arrested while they were returning from the passport office.

Alleged suicide by DU student

NEW DELHI: A final year BA student of the Delhi University on Thursday allegedly committed suicide in a South Delhi locality.

Mranal Chakravarthi was found hanging in his room at his residence in Sarojini Nagar this morning, police said.

His parents said he has been suffering from a bout of depression for sometime.

A suicide note left by him said he was fed up with his life and nobody responsible for his death.

Three sentenced to 10-year RI

NEW DELHI: Relying on the deposition statement of the victim and her husband, a court here on Thursday sentenced three persons to ten years' rigorous imprisonment each for gangraping a 23-year-old pregnant woman five years ago.

Additional Sessions Judge (ASJ) Narinder Pal Kaushik held Harbans, Ram Dhani and Pramod, all in their thirties, guilty of gangrape and slapped a fine of Rs 1,000 each on them.

The trial of three other accused in the case, all of them minors, is going on separately before the Juvenile Justice Board.

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