VARANASI: Bhelupur police, on Sunday night, busted a sex racket operating from a flat of Kabir Nagar area and arrested seven persons including five women.
This was the third sex racket busted by the city police in a week, while many more such rackets were busted in a month.
The DCP Kashi Amit Kumar termed the frequent police action against the sex rackets as a result of improved network of intelligence collection by increasing communication between police and public.
According to inspector Bhelupur Amit Mishra, acting on a tip-off, his team raided a flat in Kabir Nagar area on Sunday night and caught some women and men caught in objectionable condition.
Police arrested five women including the flat owner and their customers, he said adding that, they all were booked under sections of immoral trafficking act and sent to jail on Monday During initial investigation of police it surfaced that the elderly flat owner had been operating the sex racket with the help of women from different localities of the city, neighbouring districts and also other states.
The arrested men belonged to Varanasi and Chandauli.
Earlier, the Chetganj police had raided Kailgadh Colony and Pishachmochan areas finding sex rackets operating there on May 31 and June 5 while more such rackets operating in Jaitpura were also busted.
DCP Kashi claimed that improved communication between people and police has now started yielding positive results as people have started alerting the police against illegal activities taking place anywhere in the city and men in khaki are also acting promptly on such information.