Guwahati: Police Assam has saved five women from prostitution racquets in Kerala and managed to bring them back to Assam on Tuesday.
Women who were saved, all in the age group of 20-31 years, belonging to the economically weaker society, police said.
While two of them were Nagaon District residents in Central Assam, each of which came from the Sonitpur District, Morigaon and Hojai.
The defendant was Dilwar Hussain from the Hojai District and Ali Akbar (Mastermind) and Ainad Aunt from the Nagaon District.
Anand Mishra, police supervisor, Nagaon, said that women who were saved traded from Assam to Kerala at different times in the past six months with the pretext of giving them profitable jobs and then sold to the prostitution gang.
(Identity of the victim has not yet been disclosed to protect their privacy according to the direction of the Supreme Court about cases related to sexual violence)