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City Police have sought public co-operation in wiping out the menace, writes V.S. Palaniappan
The law-enforcing agency has begun a drive to curb flesh trade. Recent arrests have revealed that brokers were bringing commercial sex workers from other districts and States exploiting their poverty and unemployment. There was a pertinent need to rigidly enforce the law relating to flesh trade since any slackness or lenience would result in the trade leading to occurrence of crimes. The City Police Commissioner, C.K. Gandhirajan, said that the anti-vice squad led by Assistant Commissioner of Police, V. Muthusamy, had so far registered 240 cases since February. In the first week of July alone, the squad registered cases against five brokers and five women while three key organisers of the trade had been detained under the Goondas Act. The squad focussed on self-styled massage centres that were carrying on with the flesh trade under the banner of Ayurvedic massage. These centres attracted a large number of college students especially those staying in hostels. The drive led to the closure of the fake massage centres that were not rendering any service with medicinal value. The Commissioner said that the public should be willing to come out with information on such trades since the commercial sex workers and brokers who solicit customers for them acted in a very clandestine and secretive fashion. The recent cases have brought to light different types of modus operandi resorted to by the brokers in soliciting and entertaining requests from customers. The Commissioner said that the squad would function round-the-clock and those having any information could inform the squad by dialling 98431 00100. The informant’s identity would be kept confidential, he said. In the latest crackdown at Saravanampatti by deploying decoys, the squad arrested two commercial sex workers and two brokers. The squad also recovered two cars used for flesh trade and the accused have been remanded to custody under Sections 4 (2) (c) and 8 (b) of the Prevention of Immoral Trafficking (PIT) Act. In addition to the squad, the police officers have also been asked to keep a watch under their jurisdiction to prevent flesh trade, he added.
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